You don't understand - liberals are in charge of wildlife management in the Bay Area. That means it is done properly, so there is no overpopulation, and they are not hungry, and don't need to follow the deer. Besides, they are gentle creatures if treated gently (as they assuredly are the Bay Area), so they have no need to hurt deer, let alone eat them. Did you know they are widely admired in the cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas? It's true and you should never stop learning. The Inca city of Cusco is reported to have been designed in the shape of a cougar, and the animal also gave its name to both Inca regions and people. So right there it's, like, important in ways that we can't really understand, especially because we are inherently biased because we are caucasians. So we need to practice humility. And patience. Also, the Moche people represented the puma often in their ceramics. Have you ever worked with clay? It's great for releasing negative energy in a positive way, by connecting with the earth through your tactile sense. In addition, the sky and thunder god of the Inca, Viracocha, has been associated with the animal. And the Incas were really cool by anyone's standard. All the headresses and everything. Would you like to get a salad? But no cheese and not too much oil, though apple cider vinager is excellent for immune system health. That and colon cleansing, of course. Did I tell you I'm getting a Prius?
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lol, Excuuuuuse me, but I've written two books about what liberals do to the environment (for money) and have lived in the Bay Area all my life. Didn't you go to my page before writing this?
Good grief.
Also, the Moche people represented the puma often in their ceramics.
So nice of you to offer benefit of your inestimable knowledge of Central and South American cultures, but the Ohlone never had a ceramics industry. They relied upon basket making for container manufacturing and never once attempted constructing a city. Oh, and did you know that the agricultural practices for producing said baskets were one of the reasons for the fabulous soils of the Santa Clara Valley? Or that the hills were covered with agricultural patches of Clarkia, Eriogonum, Rumex, Brodiaea, Chlorogalum pomeridianum, and Dichelostema capitata interspersed among the Quercus?
One learns these things by managing disturbance and killing every blasted non-native plant, for decades. I've actually got a few patches indicating such relic farming on our property. We're tinning experiments to discern how they might have done it. Frankly, we don't know very much about it.
Effectively, the liberals might as well be making dinosaur paintings of "Nature" around here because there isn't any. But one thing is certain: If they had seen a mountain lion, the "First Peoples" would have done everything within their power to kill it.