Male animals driven mad by mating pheromones follow traffic signs to cross at the appropriate safe location. < /eyeroll>
“Conservationists are trying to raise $4 million to build a special freeway overpass “
$4 million?????? That means that will cost $400 million before it’s finished.
For about 125,000 you could set up a mountain lion whorehouse on their side of the road and save one hell of a lot of money.
Heck, they could cancel the train and build hundreds of these. They're more useful.
Not to worry. The “conservationist’s” will put up signs for the mountain lions to know the bridge is for them.
You just cannot make this stuff up!
No worries. Either make the run at night, or wait until rush hour and leap majestically from vehicle to vehicle.
What about tunnels? Don’t laugh. When FDOT in south Florida expanded I-75/Alligator Alley across the Everglades, they built an 8’ tall chain link fence along each side of the highway and had tunnels in certain areas so widelife could get to the other side freely. It actually worked well with documented cases of deer, bears, hogs and Florida panthers using the thru ways.
What happened to survival of the fittest?
What happened to survival of the fittest?
I think it’s funny how they carefully describe this story, that the males are crossing the freeway to breed.
How is it that all the girls are on the other side of the freeway? What’s up with that?
And isn’t this whole story hetero normative? What about the gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered lions????
Several nice rugs .. problem solved.
I bring to your attention the amazing fact that in this same state of California, structures have been erected, at great public expense, in the vastness of the California deserts where traffic is the occasional prospector on his way to town to collect his social security check, tunnels through the roadways, and miniature fences a la the East/West German frontier for the sole purpose of preventing tortiseside. Untold horrors have played out when lonely and horny Desert Tortii have met their demise trying to navigate these asphalt strips of death. But, thanks to the diligence of the EPA, the BLM, and the National Park Service, we have been spared the holocaust that would have ensued had the tortoise been forced to fend for itself.
And after three years when a mountain lion finally accidentally uses it they will pat themselves on the back for how wonderful they are.
Hah.
Uh, I think the big cats would MUCH prefer an underpass. Not kidding.
Sounds like the woman who called the radio station to complain deer don’t know to cross at deer crossing signs.
Mountain lions aways know to take the bridge - ancient hunting instinct.
People are getting crazier by the second in CA.
“Several male mountain lions have been killed trying to get across a log-jammed freeway to breed “
A healthy culture would see this as a good thing.