Mountain Lion - Yellowstone

This mountain lion was on the cliffs near Tower Falls in May 2005. I watched it hang out for the better part of 90 minutes.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• cougar
• puma
• yellowstone

[rahowr]

Do you realize there have only been 100 confirmed Mountain Lion attacks in the last 50 yrs ?

Chances are your friends murdered a lion because they have small dicks.

Ps,,,Deer !

[JaguarsShadow94]

Millions of people die in car-accidents each year.

It would be more useful to destroyy cars than cougars, wolfes or whatever.

If they really want to protect people.

beautyful animal btw

[hardToSignUpHere]

kitty is a kitty, not matter big or small

[astarothsharp]

peace and love to mt lions

[MrFloppywaffles]

For all you mountain lion , wolf hunting idiots , more people are attacked by dogs and snakes each year than people are attacked by mountain lions over one hundred years .

[holyfuckareyoustupid]

Do you realize that you are only as likely to be attacked by a gun wielding mugger in NY City as to be attacked by a cougar in the Rocky Mountains? Free all muggers and free your soul!

[LiberalJerseyman]

It really is so easy to avoid being attacked by a mountain lion. Don't kill them.

[ghag17]

@csbob2010 yes i do hunt, but that isn't the reason i hate not having wildlife. i don't like the idea of having to live in a wasteland. the cougars will never completely leave, so the deer will not come back. the indian reservation has been the way it is for a long time, though it did get a little worse after hunting with dogs was made illegal. it never balanced out, because the cougars were not under control. i also don't appreciate it being almost suicidal to take a hike without carrying a gun

[csbob2010]

@ghag17 As long as there is a food source, they will keep coming. Doesn't seem like a problem that people should take into their own hands. These things balance themselves out. With that same logic you could say that since there are too many mountain lions...we should kill more deer and rabbits so they starve and go away. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. Hunters getting upset because they can't hunt as much so they take it out on a local predator doesn't seem right to me.

[ghag17]

@csbob2010 also one other thing, we don't try to wipe the cougar population out, we only want to hunt with dogs so we can keep the population from going out of control, like it is on the indian reservation i mentioned. already our area is being affected as well, though not quite as bad, yet. we used to have 400 mule deer winter on our place, and you could always see incredible bucks (seeing an 8 by 8 point buck wasn't unusual. now it's just 100 and decreasing, with only spikers.

[ghag17]

@csbob2010 because the majority of the human population live in the cities, and if that were to change, "confimed" attacks would skyrocket. also being a threat to people is only one of many reasons to hunt them. they practically wipe out the wildlife in the area, and the livestock as well. on an indian reserve north of me, where almost nobody cares enough to do anything, the deer are almost entirely wiped out, and a friend of ours lost over 200 baby horses to cougars within one spring.

[csbob2010]

@ghag17 They wouldn't make hunting them with dogs legal, that wouldn't even make sense. Unless you are trying to wipe out their species, that would be pretty stupid. I'm not making this shit up, there is plenty of long term research out there that supports the fact that hunting them to deplete their population would be ineffective. Even with rapid urban expansion, mountain lion attacks remain relatively the same as they did 30 years ago.