Posted on 12/15/2013 12:34:39 PM PST by george76
Five mountain lion cubs mothered by Teton Cougar Project research animals have met their ends in the jaws of wolves over the past few years.
Now a Jackson Hole female cougar appears to have exacted vengeance.
A lion tracked by the Kelly-based science institute for the past six years is documented to have recently dined on a yearling wolf, Cougar Project biologist Mark Elbroch says.
“What’s nice about this particular incident is that this is a collared mountain lion, and we know for sure that she killed it,”
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While not unheard of, proven cases of lions killing wolves are far from normal, scientific literature shows. Wolves killing lions — evidenced by the Cougar Project’s experiences — is much more common.
Through 2008 there were three reports of cougars killing wolves in North America, Jackson Hole resident and biologist Mike Jimenez wrote in a short entry to The Canadian Field-Naturalist. One of the unlucky lobos was one of the original Yellowstone imports — Wolf B-4.
(Excerpt) Read more at jhnewsandguide.com ...
“The beauty of collard cougars culling collard coyotes is more coin.”
NOT!
That “coin” is our tax money going to commie biology thingies in the Agencies.
How about:
The horror of collard cougars culling collard coyotes is our
coin.
Buffalo Throws Lion into Air to save His Friend Being EATEN by Lions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3102063/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3102063/posts
Water Buffalo are Asian. Cape Buffalo are African. Kruger National Park where the above took place is in South Africa. Not a water buffalo.
I was responding to a post that mentioned GRANT money.
The coin would be going to commie biology thingies in the agencies, as you eloquently pointed out.
Sure is allot of speculation in this story. Kill a coyote in this country and the other coyotes will have it stripped to the bones overnight. While she may have every well killed the young wolf it could have just as easily been a more dominate Alpha Male. Were this a young male wolf the chances of it being an older Alpha male is even greater. Just because she feed on it or was in the area doesn’t mean she killed it.
Obviously, the key to the buffalo's success was that the lion he confronted was just a little cub who clearly misjudged his own capabilities.
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