Trail camera near Atoka snaps a mountain lion[Oklahoma]

NewsOK ^ | 05 Jan 2010 | ED GODFREY

[Bon mots]

Cool.

[cripplecreek]

Mountain lion is a poor name for the critters. They appear to exist in about 3/4 of the nation.

[cripplecreek]

I’d love to have one of those.

[stevio]

I hear they like soft squishy liberals.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Cool picture!

We’ve got LOTS of coyotes here in central suburban NC - and, I would bet, there are some mountain lions around and about, especially over in the mountains....but I don’t recall reports or photos of any - but easily could have missed these.

I’ve bee told the coyotes found their way across the Mississippi River - so would imagine the Mountain Lions could do the same....

[Vaduz]

Camper missing no sign of foul play.

[cripplecreek]

[dps.inspect]

fuuuuny!!

[Trust but Verify]

A mountain lion was also recently photographed by a trail camera in western Wisconsin. They also discovered the partially eaten remains of a fawn covered in cornstalks, presumably to preserve for a second feeding. A couple years ago there were ML sightings throughout the southern part of the state. DNA samples were obtained from hair that revealed the ML came from South Dakota. A few weeks later, a mountain liion was shot and killed in an alleyway in Chicago, with tests revealing it was the same animal that has been through Wisconsin.

This is all very exciting to me as I love wild animals. I was po'd when they had to shoot the poor thing.

[Trust but Verify]

Love it!

[dr_who]

Ought to introduce some onto the national maul in DC.

[squarebarb]

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation says it’s hard to monitor something so secretive.

But average citizen picks it up on a trail camera.

Your bureacracy at work.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Wow - a Mountain Lion made it to Chicago? A shame it didn’t make a meal of some of the famous residents there then BEFORE it was shot.....

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

That is hysterical!

[Dumpster Baby]

So, is the fault global warming or Bush?

;^)

[tiki]

I bought them for my sons for Christmas.

[freedomfiter2]

One of my neighbors here in LeFlore County, OK also got one on his trail camera.

[BluH2o]

Live in Colorado Springs close by Cheyenne Mtn. State Park & Pike National Forest. Back around Thanksgiving spotted a mountain lion just before sunup trotting along a trail behind my home. The area has a lot of scrub oak that provides cover for deer which in turn attract the occasional mountain lion. Bobcat are also seen from time to time. Not to mention large coyotes. This area is not a friendly environment for domestic cats & smaller dogs left unattended outdoors. Many go missing.

[50cal Smokepole]

The law requires the carcass to be brought to the Wildlife Department, but no one has checked in a dead cougar yet. Peoples said he thinks if mountain lions were common in Oklahoma, a hunter would have shot one by now.

Methinks he doesn't quite get it. Shoot. Shovel. Shutup.