Guildedagain
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Who knew but incredibly loud cat like yowling on the hill next to our house had me researching this.
Cougars, Mountain Lions, Pumas have a 50-150 mile range (129-388km), depending on age and ability to find dinner. A male can be 8' and weigh 180lbs. More typically 120 or so lbs
Detroit is 142 square miles, 367 square kilometers.
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Checked with a neighbor this morning, and it also happened by her house, and somebody else's house, and another neighbor found turkey leftovers and a deer carcass up behind his house. The Cougar activity here is off the charts.
It's because of the fires. We just had 132,000 acre fire next door, part of a "historic fire event" with high winds resulting in 80 fires and nearly 300,000 acres burned in a day. Just one of the fires went on to burn 337,000 acres, 526 square miles, 1363 square kilometers.
We just had 5 milllion acres burn up in the west, 7812 square miles, 20232 Sq km of lost habitat
These are normally very solitary animals, I've never even seen a live one, but I have a feeling that's about to change. I've seen ones that have been hunted with dogs, treed and shot by the local game warden after eating three goats in 2 days, the people with the goats had kids no bigger than the goats. Big kitty.
The days of nature encroaching on man are upon us.
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Cougars, Mountain Lions, Pumas have a 50-150 mile range (129-388km), depending on age and ability to find dinner. A male can be 8' and weigh 180lbs. More typically 120 or so lbs
Detroit is 142 square miles, 367 square kilometers.
Puma (genus) - Wikipedia
Checked with a neighbor this morning, and it also happened by her house, and somebody else's house, and another neighbor found turkey leftovers and a deer carcass up behind his house. The Cougar activity here is off the charts.
It's because of the fires. We just had 132,000 acre fire next door, part of a "historic fire event" with high winds resulting in 80 fires and nearly 300,000 acres burned in a day. Just one of the fires went on to burn 337,000 acres, 526 square miles, 1363 square kilometers.
We just had 5 milllion acres burn up in the west, 7812 square miles, 20232 Sq km of lost habitat
These are normally very solitary animals, I've never even seen a live one, but I have a feeling that's about to change. I've seen ones that have been hunted with dogs, treed and shot by the local game warden after eating three goats in 2 days, the people with the goats had kids no bigger than the goats. Big kitty.
The days of nature encroaching on man are upon us.
