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Killing pumas doesn't lessen attacks
Reuters ^ | 08/08/06

Posted on 08/08/2006 1:47:20 PM PDT by presidio9

Sport hunting of mountain lions in the American West does not reduce the number of attacks by the animals, also called cougars and pumas, against man and livestock, said a study released on Tuesday

"Sport hunting is nothing more than the random shooting of mountain lions for fun, it does not reduce attacks on people or livestock, as far as we can tell from any of the evidence," said Lynn Sadler, president of the Sacramento, California-based Mountain Lion Foundation which initiated the study.

"What we would like to see is that states manage them according to science, and not just some, you know, idea that you can somehow randomly shoot them for fun and cause anybody or anything to be any safer," she said in an interview.

About a dozen Western U.S. states have thousands of mountain lions living in the wild, Sadler said. All except California allow controlled hunting of lions, with some agencies citing the protection of man and livestock as a reason for the practice.

The new study by Christopher Papouchis compared the number of attacks in California with states allowing hunting, and said it took into account the human population and size of the mountain lion habitat. It is posted online at www.pumaconservation.org.

Many Western wildlife management experts say species such as bears, mountain lions and deer show more caution around humans if they are hunted and more aggressiveness if they are not.

"Hunting of lions is one way to regulate lion populations so you minimise those types of conflicts," said Larry Peterman, chief of field operations at the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

"We get occasional conflicts with livestock; we have very few conflicts with people," he said. "We certainly think it's an effective management tool."

But Papouchis' study disagreed. "If sport hunting actually reduced attacks, then states with sport hunting should have had relatively fewer attacks than California," Papouchis said in a statement. "That was not the case."


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: animalrights; animals; bogusstudy; environment; junkscience; wildlife
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To: presidio9
Killing pumas doesn't lessen attacks

Attacked by dead pumas?

Night of The Living Dead Pumas?

21 posted on 08/08/2006 2:23:24 PM PDT by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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To: presidio9
"Sport hunting is nothing more than the random shooting of mountain lions for fun, it does not reduce attacks on people or livestock, as far as we can tell from any of the evidence," said Lynn Sadler, president of the Sacramento, California-based Mountain Lion Foundation which initiated the study.

Well Lynn, I'm president of the Predator Extermination Foundation and clearly all of the evidence points to the fact that when there are fewer of these critters around, they attack fewer people.

When they are extinct, they attack no people. So Pbbbbt.
22 posted on 08/08/2006 2:26:18 PM PDT by Old_Mil (http://www.constitutionparty.org - Forging a Rebirth of Freedom.)
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To: kcmt01; Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; TheBigB; Xenalyte

The key is the age. Elisha Culthbert (at least that's who I think it is) is too young to be a "cougar." Stifler's mom (from post 14) on the other hand is both a "cougar" and a "MILF." But that's another story.

I open this up to our panel of experts for discussion.


23 posted on 08/08/2006 2:29:17 PM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: presidio9
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24 posted on 08/08/2006 2:41:54 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Moderate Bumper Sticker: Bush Lied, Terrorists Died!)
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To: presidio9
"Sport hunting is nothing more than the random shooting of mountain lions for fun, it does not reduce attacks on people or livestock, as far as we can tell from any of the evidence," said Lynn Sadler, president of the Sacramento, California-based Mountain Lion Foundation which initiated the study.

Ummmmm.
What evidence, Lynn?
Assertions are not evidence.

You can surmise anything, but we can say with absolute certainty that dead mountain lions can never ever again kill humans or livestock.

25 posted on 08/08/2006 2:44:22 PM PDT by Publius6961 (overwhelming force behaving underwhelmingly is a waste.)
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To: dirtboy

I have heard, from more than one source that I trust, that Mountain Lion makes excellent eating.


26 posted on 08/08/2006 3:24:13 PM PDT by Renfield
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To: presidio9

Please someone tell me if I should trust anything Reuter's say's........


27 posted on 08/08/2006 3:25:46 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: presidio9

Just gather your lies into a bundle and call it a 'study,' It'll fool'em every time.


28 posted on 08/08/2006 3:26:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: Sam Cree
"So when you kill some cougars, the others work longer hours to take up the slack?"

It's along that line. The African tribes refused to kill lions, because it was said the others would take up the slack and preferentially go after villagers. Same here with the dirt worshipers.

29 posted on 08/08/2006 3:33:11 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: presidio9; editor-surveyor
What I find absolutely ridiculous about all the explanations & conclusions from the 'experts' studies are their characterizations of the critter whether its cougar (or gator, or python, or grizzly/polar bear, or shark/tiger/great-white) as being a rogue critter gone wild, or perhaps the critter mistook the human for something else and it was all just an innocent mistake /sarc>

Who's is doing the de-briefing on these critters.., Reuters ?? Oh wait.. it is!! ROTFL!

W.
30 posted on 08/08/2006 9:40:16 PM PDT by RunningWolf (2-1 Cav 1975)
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