To: Scoutmaster
I read someplace that only one person has ever been recorded as killed by a Mountain Lion. They should of let it live.
24 posted on
12/19/2014 6:54:44 AM PST by
amnestynone
(A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
To: amnestynone
I agree they should have let the cat live. Siting a big cat in the wild is extremely rare and awesome.
But I have to disagree that only one person has been killed by a mountain lion. A young man was killed this summer in one of the western states. Also I think that a few bicyclists and joggers have been killed in California in recent history.
37 posted on
12/19/2014 7:19:08 AM PST by
SisterK
To: amnestynone
That information is incorrect. The death rate due to attacks by mountain lions in the United States in Canada has typically been 0 to 2 persons per year for many decades.
Mountain Lion Attacks On People in the U.S. and Canada
http://tchester.org/sgm/lists/lion_attacks.html
43 posted on
12/19/2014 7:28:02 AM PST by
WhiskeyX
To: amnestynone
You should read “The Monster In The Garden” if you want an answer to you question. BTW they have been spotted crossing highways inside the LA city limits. National Geography did a story on the LA mountain Lyons. I saw one in the early ‘60s walking down the street of my suburb in Marin County thirty miles from the GGB.
48 posted on
12/19/2014 7:34:39 AM PST by
crabpott
(' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
To: amnestynone
"I read someplace that only one person has ever been recorded as killed by a Mountain Lion."
That is incorrect, dozens have been killed by them.
Google "fatal mountain lion attacks" for a partial listing.
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