Posted on 02/26/2021 3:22:45 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Did you know that mountain lions can fly? Well, not quite, but they come pretty darn close with the ability to jump nearly 20 feet straight up in the air!
It's not often that you see an airborne big cat, but that's exactly what was captured on this trail camera in Colorado.
“Absolutely terrifying," one Facebook user said in response to the photograph.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) says that these fascinating animals are incredibly strong and fast, running as fast as 45 miles per hour and jumping as high as 19 feet straight up in the air. These cats are also able to jump a span of roughly 45 feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at outtherecolorado.com ...
So you think flying tigers are something!
Vid never showed it. Neither did the YT linked, at article.
If I somehow missed it, please post the exact minute mark that the mountain lion “flew”.
Thanks.
I have a game cam out looking for our local beast.
Only the usual deer friends to date.
Daf, you can surely add something in here for comparison.
Hoping to catch one on my trail cam at the top of the local mountain range. So far the best i’ve got is a fox coming and going at night (eight nights apart).
I saw a cougar fly once. Horseback riding in the Cascades we spooked a deer. I had barely had the thought that I had never seen a deer spook that hard from horses when a cougar came out of somewhere and was airborne the entire time I saw it. It disappeared into thick pine chasing the deer.
It happened so fast
THERE IS A VERY NICE STILL PHOTO AT THE TOP OF THE LINK.
The video is labeled as...”on what you should do if you encounter a mountain lion.”.
“...running as fast as 45 miles per hour and jumping as high as 19 feet straight up in the air. These cats are also able to jump a span of roughly 45 feet.”
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Yikes! So basically, take the abilities of your average house cat, Scale everything up by 10X, and you’ve got a mountain lion.
Yup where’s the trail cam? That’s an artist rendition
As for the cougar, it looks like she (definitely looks like a she) is also wearing a collar, so obviously she’s already been assigned an inventory number. :P
Cougars gonna coug!
I saw a mountain lion for the first time in my life last Christmas Day. He or she was walking along across the road as if it owned the joint. It was huge. I’m keeping my rifle handy from now on. I’ve been here 17th years and now I know they’ve been out there all along.
I have a game cam out looking for our local beast.
We have a couple of trail cams that watch over our garden and under the fruit trees.
When the mulberries are ripe almost every critter in the county stops by for a snack.
And I have seen skunks, coons, rabbits, possum...all in one photo.
I have seen coyotes in my neighbor’s yard inside a four-foot+ fence, never on my cameras?
That’s OK he can have them.
What is on the ground? Bigfoot?
“I saw a cougar fly once.”
And I thought you were going to tell us about a late-night event at the local watering hole???
Oh well.
The cam is on the tree down right from the mountain lion.
They can soar many feet.
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