"I had a deer in this hole and I was going to dig up the little feller and eat em up! Urrrrgggghh!"
Pumas ought to check their privilege.
The cougars will do fine.
Bear ping.
Killed 2 black bears. I wonder how big the bears were?
It doesn’t sound like Pumas are apex predators, when bears are eating their lunch.
"I had a deer in this hole and I was going to dig up the little feller and eat em up! Urrrrgggghh!"
Someone just discovered that water is wet. Cats and some birds like fresh meat, bears and buzzards like ripe meat. That is well known by every old trapper on the face of the earth but these yahoos just figured it out.
Old trick, If you want to find a fresh cat kill follow the magpies and you will find that fresh kill and if you stick around for awhile you will find the cat too.
If you watch for the buzzards in the area for a few days and then return to the kill you will find mr bear and the buzzards.
I was raised in the norcal Sierra Nevada mountains hunting, fishing and trapping. I knew how this worked before I hit my teenage years. I am now 66.
How is it that the fish and game biologists just figured it out?
How this really applies to the wildlife balance is that if the bears run the cats off of their kills the lions will kill more small game but mostly they will kill more deer. So, the estimates of how many deer the mountain lions are killing is way short.
Since the city folks saw fit to remove the big cats from any and all controls by the Cali fish and game the deer populations in cali have caught hell. Because of a popular vote (with the vast majority of votes coming out of SF and LA), I am saying that the state officials can not legally do anything, no actions, to control or manage the mountain lion health, distribution, and population in California.
This might take a bit of thinking, but with the ways the cali laws are on the big cats leaves the state fish and game and biologists only one option and one tool to control their apex predator. They simply look the other way when the ranchers and others kill them effectively thinning their population and density.
That is what happens when the mountain men and the wildlife expert women in San Francisco and LA who have never even seen a mountain lion in the wild are allowed to make the decision that it is illegal to manage them in any way.
I believe that every time there is a problem with a big cat the lion should be live trapped and let loose in golden gate park. Then we can let all the experts in SF “not deal” with them.
We have black bears all over western and even central New Jersey. And the only cougars we have here like to hang out certain shore bars in the summer.
Black Bear lives matter, even when they steal for a living.
They are lions, but they call them pumas because they live in CA and have an accent.
Bears are bad ass. News at 11:00.