How do they know the Chicago mtn lion was a wild one who wandered there, and not a captive one released there?
Most idiots who keep Mountain Lions as “pets” have them defanged and declawed.
Scientists say South Dakota is a likely source for a mountain lion that was killed this week in Chicago after what would be a record 900-mile journey from the Black Hills.
More concrete evidence of the lion’s travels may lie in a piece of its muscle that Illinois officials will send to a DNA lab in Montana.
The Chicago Tribune estimated a 1,000-mile trek counting a swing through Wisconsin... beats the standing record of 663 miles a Black Hills lion wandered before a train struck and killed it in Oklahoma
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001669/posts?page=40#40
...they sent the DNA out to the Black Hills to run it thru their lab and data base....same thing with the lion hit by a train last year in Oklahoma....that one had traveled 700 miles....lot of strange things are happening with wild life these days...there are confirmed populations of wild turkeys in every county in North Carolina....I couldn’t say that just 25 years ago...