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Bobcat Climbs Cactus To Escape Mountain Lion [w/pix]
KPHO.com ^ | 4/7/11

Posted on 04/08/2011 12:08:09 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

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1 posted on 04/08/2011 12:08:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
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2 posted on 04/08/2011 12:11:12 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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I hope the cameraman wasn't wandering around snapping pics while the Mountain Lion was still there.


3 posted on 04/08/2011 12:19:47 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Yikes, that’s one tall saguaro!

Bobcats are handsome little stinkers, btw.


4 posted on 04/08/2011 12:37:05 AM PDT by DemforBush (Of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best.)
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I would climb a cactus to escape a mountain lion, too.


5 posted on 04/08/2011 12:40:37 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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Motivation, baby.


6 posted on 04/08/2011 12:43:01 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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"The bobcat stayed up there all day long. The mountain lion eventually lost interest and wandered off."

That was one lucky bobcat...


7 posted on 04/08/2011 2:07:22 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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I haven't had my coffee yet and was trying to figure out how the operator accomplished this. Wrong bobcat. ;-)

8 posted on 04/08/2011 2:12:51 AM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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Maybe a floor model.


9 posted on 04/08/2011 2:43:03 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Markos33

...or one unlucky lion.


10 posted on 04/08/2011 2:44:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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11 posted on 04/08/2011 4:12:37 AM PDT by blam
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Cute bobcat, but I didn’t see a mountain lion.


12 posted on 04/08/2011 4:21:10 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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That cactus puts the OW in Meow!

Meoooooowwww

The Mrs


13 posted on 04/08/2011 4:21:18 AM PDT by CT Hillbilly
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I saw this in a very old Disney movie about the Grand Canyon. Something like a bear scared the mountain lion up into the cactus. In reality, these events are usually staged by the photographers, there is almost no way a photographer was there if this randomly happened.


14 posted on 04/08/2011 5:36:26 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Wonderful pictures at the source. Don’t miss the slideshow.


15 posted on 04/08/2011 6:29:54 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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"When he looked down at me, those beautiful amber eyes with those dark slits said it all

I would of read those eyes as saying 'Oh God, I'm in so much pain'...

16 posted on 04/08/2011 6:33:21 AM PDT by Fawn (No--bama 2012)
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“He did what he had to do to live another day.”

The puma got tired of being taunted and left. Nyah, nyah!


17 posted on 04/08/2011 7:40:45 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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But wait! That is a picture of a mountain lion on a saguaro cactus. If mountain lions can also climb cactus, why didn’t he pursue the bobcat?


18 posted on 04/08/2011 7:53:36 AM PDT by colorcountry (Comforting lies are not your friends. Painful truths are not your enemies.)
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19 posted on 04/08/2011 8:02:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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Indeed!


20 posted on 04/08/2011 8:49:45 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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