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Federal researchers declare eastern cougar extinct
Yahoo! News ^ | March 2, 2011 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

Posted on 03/02/2011 6:40:18 PM PST by americanophile

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To: Tailback
It might mean the horrific end to one more smelly pacifist hippy!

Doubt it. Big cats can't stand the smell of patchouli.

41 posted on 03/02/2011 7:03:24 PM PST by Drill Thrawl (I don't prep for the disaster. I prepare for the rebuilding.)
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To: americanophile
The wildlife service said Wednesday it confirmed 108 sightings between 1900 and 2010, but that these animals either escaped or were released from captivity, or migrated from western states to the Midwest. "The Fish and Wildlife Service fully believes that some people have seen cougars, and that was an important part of the review that we did," said Mark McCollough, an endangered species biologist who led the agency's eastern cougar study. "We went on to evaluate where these animals would be coming from."

Does this basically say that the only difference between an Eastern Cougar and any other kind of cougar is strictly one of location? What the heck kind of definition of "extinct" does the Fish and Wildlife Service have in their dictionary?

42 posted on 03/02/2011 7:03:53 PM PST by Eepsy
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To: mamelukesabre

True.


43 posted on 03/02/2011 7:04:01 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: Fido969

That pic is getting on my nerves.


44 posted on 03/02/2011 7:04:01 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: americanophile; RaceBannon; nutmeg; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; ...
Friend of friend sent me pics last year of a "cougar" (4 legged, not 2) on the back porch of a NE CT home. That kitty was BIG.

MEOW! I can haz nutmeg?

45 posted on 03/02/2011 7:04:20 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: americanophile

Probably whatever gets in the way.


46 posted on 03/02/2011 7:06:03 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

All none of them?


47 posted on 03/02/2011 7:06:44 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: I see my hands

According to this site, there are plenty of east coast cougars.

http://tinyurl.com/covbbv


48 posted on 03/02/2011 7:06:44 PM PST by petenmi
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To: muawiyah

...if God wants there to be terrorists, He’ll make them...


49 posted on 03/02/2011 7:08:52 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: americanophile

So why do we still see them in Georgia?


50 posted on 03/02/2011 7:08:53 PM PST by U S Army EOD
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To: americanophile
You've got more nerve than a bum tooth.

51 posted on 03/02/2011 7:09:15 PM PST by I see my hands (You can know the young posters by the desperate optimism in their posts.)
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To: mamelukesabre
"NEAR THEM" ~ sure, there were lions in Europe and if they weren't under tight control there was considerable organized hunting to get rid of them.

Eventually Europeans disposed of the lions found in even the most remote areas.

By the time the Swedes obtained rights to mine the Carpathians, half the wolves in Europe were confined to those mountains. Today there's a residual population, but NO ONE WANTS THEM BACK.

Let's go back to 12,500 years ago in Anatolia ~ in that area where those hunter gatherers did their funeral celebrations THERE WERE NO LARGE TIGERS ~ or lions ~ or wolves ~ else they'd carved statues of them.

No doubt there were the occasional stray large carnivore, but certainly no Sabre Toothed tigers of whatever species. Early Americans, similar to the people recently found in Central Alaska from 11,500 years ago, are credited with ELIMINATING the saber toothed tigers and dire wolves, and with them, the mastadons, etc.

Stone age human beings were quite capable of getting rid of entire species of large dangerous animals and did so!

52 posted on 03/02/2011 7:09:41 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: U S Army EOD
Apparently that's the Florida subspecies.
53 posted on 03/02/2011 7:10:07 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: petenmi
LOL @ "Katra Lounge."

54 posted on 03/02/2011 7:11:03 PM PST by I see my hands (You can know the young posters by the desperate optimism in their posts.)
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To: americanophile

I agree.


55 posted on 03/02/2011 7:11:15 PM PST by khnyny (What exactly is a CDO??)
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To: Col Frank Slade
OK where are the cougar jokes ?

I, personally, don't know any but did you here the one about the Minister, the Priest and the Rabbi that walked into a bar and the bartender said, "what is this, some kind of joke"?

56 posted on 03/02/2011 7:11:22 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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To: mamelukesabre

There are at least two in Bay County, FL, just south of the new airport. They’ve been seen, and heard, several times.


57 posted on 03/02/2011 7:12:42 PM PST by jch10 (Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war...)
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To: mamelukesabre

3rd paragraph

Wednesday’s declaration paves the way for the eastern cougar to be removed from the endangered species list, where it was placed in 1973. The agency’s decision to declare the eastern cougar extinct does not affect the status of the Florida panther, another endangered wildcat.


58 posted on 03/02/2011 7:13:47 PM PST by Netizen
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To: I see my hands

Hahah...as it happens I have a bum tooth as well.


59 posted on 03/02/2011 7:13:52 PM PST by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: hinckley buzzard
In fact it is highly doubtful there is a separate species at issue here in the first place.

You got that right.

These are the same people who classify Coho salmon from different rivers as different species.

Although, I suspect I might be a different species from Californians.

60 posted on 03/02/2011 7:14:11 PM PST by seowulf ("If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still---nothing"...Kira Alexandrovna Argounova)
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