Texasgordo
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That's a lot of water
All the stones you’ll need.
That's a lot of water
All the stones you’ll need.
cygunner,
While the male pumas may well roam HUGE areas, the females are "home bodies" & will usually be born, give birth to & raise her kittens, live out her life & die W/I 5 miles of her birthplace, according to the Senior Wildlife Biologist of TWPWD, who spoke to our TMN class in June 2018.
He said that a female will leave her "home territory" only IF a manmade or natural disaster occurs AND/OR there is insufficient prey-animals for her to hunt.
yours, satx
My source says 50 square miles for females and a 300 mile loop for males. Sounds more likely as it wouldn't take a hungry mama lion long to clean out/scare out 5 square miles but even so, out here in our little corner of the world 5 miles could put her in 3 different counties. Lone Star Law on Animal Planet is as close as I want to get to TPWD.Never before in my life have I heard that female lions don't roam. I also have an inherent distrust of TWPWD bilogists becasue they claim that black panthers don't exist. I have seen one. So I'm filing your report in my memory banks, but under the the heading of supposedly.
Never before in my life have I heard that female lions don't roam. I also have an inherent distrust of TWPWD bilogists becasue they claim that black panthers don't exist. I have seen one. So I'm filing your report in my memory banks, but under the the heading of supposedly.
My source says 50 square miles for females and a 300 mile loop for males. Sounds more likely as it wouldn't take a hungry mama lion long to clean out/scare out 5 square miles but even so, out here in our little corner of the world 5 miles could put her in 3 different counties. Lone Star Law on Animal Planet is as close as I want to get to TPWD.
Black Panthers/Jaguars have been seen on trail cameras migrating out of mexico into AZ. AZ GAME AND FISH trail cameras. I have no doubt the same things happen in texas and new mexico.Never before in my life have I heard that female lions don't roam. I also have an inherent distrust of TWPWD bilogists becasue they claim that black panthers don't exist. I have seen one. So I'm filing your report in my memory banks, but under the the heading of supposedly.
cygunner,
How many SQUARE MILES are in a CIRCLE with a 5-mile radius??
(Math isn't my "strong suit" by any means, BUT it's several.)
Pi (3.1416) times the radius (5x5= 25) squared is 78.54 square miles, if I did it correctly.
yours, satx
Oregon banned the use of dogs in hunting cougar and bear, a couple decades later guess what? Oregon now has a bear and cougar problem....
What round for serious people?Too many people take you too seriously when you ask this question lol.
medicmike,
YEP, OR has a REAL problem with Cats & Bears, as does CA.
I know of at least TWO adults ( a 27YO woman, who was out picking blackberries & a 19YO male, who was cane-pole fishing) in CA, who made written statements to a CA Game Warden that they were STALKED by a puma.
yours, satx
I got that right away!I wish a cougar would attack me.
The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the greatest number of names, with over 40 in English alone
As a teenager, I camped on the banks of my granddad's creek quite often. The house where my dad was raised was a few hundred yards away.
Dad told of the big cats occasional sighting and the blood curdling screams they produced. Being an immortal teen, I listened and went on my way.
One night, as the campfire died and I and my friend were dozing off, we heard it. Instantly wide eyed and standing, we bolted for the old farmhouse. Only one obstacle stood in our way. 5 strands of barbed wire.
The overweight and slow lineman I called a close friend was standing on the porch of the vacant house hollering for me to hurry. I was the light and fast wide receiver. As I climbed over the fence and hauled ass to the old house, another scream from closer behind emitted from the darkness. Once inside the relative safety of a dwelling I asked , "how did you get over the fence so fast?" The fat guy answered, "I hurdled it".
Funny story aside. That cat was after us and that sound. Good Lord. That sound.
We waited an hour or so. Went home and got a shotgun and spotlight.
Retrieved our camping gear and went back home for the night.
If you've ever heard a mountain lion scream, you know what I mean.
Oregon banned the use of dogs in hunting cougar and bear, a couple decades later guess what? Oregon now has a bear and cougar problem....
Chubbies need lovin' too, even the ugly ones. I'd second a motion for Moonpie to be the one to give that particular specimen some lovin tho, I don't mind some chub, but her chub's chub has chub and I have chronic hip pain
Wanna know something even more *fun* - they "reintroduced" wolves to southern and eastern Oregon (along with part of Washington, Cali, and Idaho) - and surprise surprise there have been problems with wolves. Talk to the ranchers and home owners out there (conservative part of those states) - they won't send their children out to play or to do chores unarmed. Either an armed adult goes, or the kids take a gun with them. There was zero need to introduce another predator species - especially one that hadn't inhabited the region in 100+ years, but the greenies just *had* to *save* the wolves by introducing a breed that wasn't even found there to begin with. Progressives are all for progression except when they want regression. Progressives hate human life and industry and value animal life over human life.