US Officials Declare Eastern Cougar Extinct

[Beerina]

It's a type of vehicle that takes coconuts to the runway for the African swallows. It's the width of 21 unshucked coconuts.

Maybe those sickly North Dakota coconuts.

 

[LTC8K6]

Certainly wide enough for farm trucks and such. Probably 9 to 11 feet wide, not including any shoulder.

One sasquatch stride?

 

[Pterodactyl]

One sasquatch stride?

I was going to suggest earlier that we need to change the standard by which we measure country roads, from "feet" to "Bobo strides" .

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Cougar killed in central KY.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/12/17/puma-killed-in-kentucky/20536509/

Be interesting to learn if its a escaped / released pet or a wild male that has wandered into the state.

Far more likely to be a puma that was a house pet until it got too big and rambunctious. I've seen reports that there are >3,000 tigers in private ownership in Texas alone. I can picture some jerk taking a pet out into the woods and dumping it. I can also picture what I'd do to him.

 

[clayflingythingy]

Since the cat appeared seemingly from nowhere (unlike the CT cat that was sighted, etc. on its journey) I would agree the escaped / released pet is likely.

OTOH, the DNA will tell the tale. I'm kinda hoping it was wild animal from the Black Hills population.

 

[William Parcher]

I've got my money on it being a dispersing male from the Black Hills breeding population. He will not be older than 3 years.

 

[Cervelo]

Why?

Collection of a specimen would have been a pretty big deal.

 

[clayflingythingy]

Since this story broke I have now heard two tales of "black panthers" and one "they have always been here".

Unlike jerrywayne, I know folks lie, so I'm gonna mark off the two black panther tales as fabrications by folks who "want to ride the roller coaster" of the mt. lion kill.

 

[Cervelo]

Since this story broke I have now heard two tales of "black panthers" and one "they have always been here".

Unlike jerrywayne, I know folks lie, so I'm gonna mark off the two black panther tales as fabrications by folks who "want to ride the roller coaster" of the mt. lion kill.

Heck ya!
I can't wait for the opportunity to be interviewed by "Finding Black Pumas"!!!
I think there's one in this pic....circled it for ya

 

[William Parcher]

What's a farm truck and how wide is it?

Never mind the truck. Let's talk about your black cat that was as long as a road lane.

Will you "go to your grave" believing that you saw 10 foot long black cat leap across that road?

I'm fascinated by hillbilly woo. Are you fascinated by hillbilly woo too?

 

[Cervelo]

Never mind the truck. Let's talk about your black cat that was as long as a road lane.

Will you "go to your grave" believing that you saw 10 foot long black cat leap across that road?

I'm fascinated by hillbilly woo. Are you fascinated by hillbilly woo too?

Never said 10' get your facts straight there Billy

 

[William Parcher]

Hillbilly woo don't never give no length.

 

[Myron Proudfoot]

pffft, I bet there will be plenty of cougars prowling the bars tonight.

 

[CynicalSkeptic]

The two nearest breeding populations are approximately equidistant to Bourbon County, Kentucky. These are the Black Hills in South Dakota and South Florida.

From the article, there is a colony In Missouri which is much closer.

They have colonized in South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri, said Amy Rodrigues, a staff biologist for the Mountain Lion Foundation

 

[William Parcher]

From the article, there is a colony In Missouri which is much closer.

No. The problem is the use of the term "colonized". There is no breeding population in Missouri. All you would have there are young males which have dispersed from the Black Hills South Dakota breeding population.

Although MDC (Missouri Department of Conservation) biologists have detected no breeding population of mountain lions in Missouri, myths about them persist.

Link.

 

[Drewbot]

About the width of half a country road in NC
Never said 10' get your facts straight there Billy

Which is it?

Unless you are saying half a country LANE, on a two lane highway.

 

[Cervelo]

Which is it?

Unless you are saying half a country LANE, on a two lane highway.

Is that not what I said?
Do you not understand the words or just busting my balls for some reason?

 

[Crazy Eddie Point]

Late to the party but I've undoubtedly seen a cougar in south-central Ontario in the QEII Wildlands.
The MNR now seems to admit there is a breeding population and considers the species "endangered".
There has been one study done I've found:

canadianfieldnaturalist dot ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194
canadianfieldnaturalist dot ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194/1187 for the pdf study.

Seems I can't post links yet...replace the "dot" obviously.

 

[William Parcher]

Late to the party but I've undoubtedly seen a cougar in south-central Ontario in the QEII Wildlands.
The MNR now seems to admit there is a breeding population and considers the species "endangered".
There has been one study done I've found:

canadianfieldnaturalist dot ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194
canadianfieldnaturalist dot ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194/1187 for the pdf study.

Seems I can't post links yet...replace the "dot" obviously.

Here are your links...

http://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194

http://canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194/1187

The PDF (Evidence Confirms the Presence of Cougars [Puma concolor] in
Ontario, Canada) is totally screwed up.

Figure 1 shows a canid track in snow, but Rosatte calls it a cougar track.

Figure 2 shows a black domestic cat, but Rosatte calls it a melanistic jaguar.

Worthless!!

 

[The Shrike]

Here are your links...

http://www.canadianfieldnaturalist.ca/index.php/cfn/article/view/1194

Worthless!!

Wow - how did this crap get published? I guess CFN has gone downhill.

Fig 1 looks like legit cougar to me - front print. Fig 4 looks canid. Did you just get confused with the Fig numbers?