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Thread: Mountain Lion sighting
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January 10th, 2021, 02:39 PM #321Super Member
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January 10th, 2021, 02:41 PM #322
Re: Mountain Lion sighting
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January 10th, 2021, 03:37 PM #323Super Member
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
I can't believe this is still going on! As I stated in post #49: In 2005 my wife and I watched a cougar for about 5 minutes from a range of about 50 feet. We didn't have a camera or a phone with us. I have been a hunter, trapper and "wildlife nut" most of my 73 years. There is absolutely NO DOUBT what it was. Having said that, I have to say that in the last 15 years I have seen absolutely 0 sign of any cat larger than a bob-cat....no visual, no track, no scat...NADA! I assume I saw a rare cat roaming through or an escaped "pet"....but I still keep looking.
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January 12th, 2021, 11:10 AM #324
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January 12th, 2021, 12:52 PM #325
Re: Mountain Lion sighting
Cougar gestation period is a mere 92 days, birthing 2-4. Male cougars, being felines, LOVE and insist upon sex. Doing the math, there should be inch and a quarter thick scat by kills, kills, footprints, trail cam photos galore in the 15 years since the last known sighting. Assuming migration from other states, sightings will begin at our borders and work inward.
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January 12th, 2021, 01:51 PM #326
Re: Mountain Lion sighting
Every year in PA there are many thousands of traps put in the ground by fox, coyote, and bobcat trappers. If they exist, surely at some point someone somewhere would have caught one.
Those traps can easily hold an adult mountain lion.
In addition, other than very blurry pictures occasionally popping up, there are no road kills, verified tracks, or scat presented.
People who think they’ve seen one will never be convinced otherwise and I would love to see one, but until there is something more concrete than those fuzzy pictures, I have to believe they do not exist in PA.
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January 12th, 2021, 02:35 PM #327
Re: Mountain Lion sighting
From the little I know of it, it seems a long bushy tail is usually the basis of the "sighting". Is it possible that there are variants of bobcat with longer, bushy tails? The male cougar weighs up to 200 pounds, the female cougar up to 120. A female cougar of a weight less than 120 and having a bushier tail than normal would likely be mistaken for a cougar during a brief observation. Smaller body, slightly longer and bushier tail, giving a ratio having the appearance of a cougar.
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January 12th, 2021, 06:32 PM #328
Re: Mountain Lion sighting
Help me out in understanding this: "A female cougar of a weight less than 120 and having a bushier tail than normal would likely be mistaken for a cougar during a brief observation."
A female cougar being mistaken for a cougar?
If it is a cougar does that not meet the criteria of being a cougar?
Rick
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January 12th, 2021, 06:40 PM #329
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January 12th, 2021, 07:39 PM #330Super Member
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Re: Mountain Lion sighting
I also set up 5 trail cameras around my property and have never seen anything cougar-ish. And, as far as what I saw being a bobcat, I have seen dozens of lynx and bobcat and a few cougars. There is no way anyone with even a little knowledge of felines could make that mistake. Almost every part of a cougar is different than the others. A cougar is much larger and moves differently. The next one I see will be the second.
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