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Cache Creek Cougar Family GroupCraighead Beringia South | 2012-01-31 Cougar biologists at Craighead Beringia South weigh in on Cache Creek cougars. |
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Cache Creek Cougar Family GroupCraighead Beringia South | 2012-01-31 Cougar biologists at Craighead Beringia South weigh in on Cache Creek cougars. |
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Game and Fish fuels fear of cougarsRick Hopkins | 2012-02-01 |
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Game and Fish fuels fear of cougarsRick Hopkins | 2012-02-01 |
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COUGAR KITTENS EMPERILED BY WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT2012-01-26 |
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4th cougar kitten foundCory Hatch, Jackson Hole Daily | 2012-02-03 Three kittens caught. Four cougars total. (Despite newspaper title.) | |
3rd Cougar Kitten FoundCorey Hatch, Jackson Hole News and Guide | 2012-02-03 WY Game and Fish still plans to move cougar family far from its home range. |
Books About The Cougar
A Cougar's TaleFox-Parrish, Jurin, Schafer | 2010-04-27 Meet Mitzli’s newborn cubs, Yutin, Klandi, and Mosi. The three cubs have many exciting new experiences. They watch and learn from Mitzli on how to hunt and be wary of other predators. See what happens when they encounter wolves within their territory! |
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Cache Creek Cougar Family GroupCraighead Beringia South | 2012-01-31 Cougar biologists at Craighead Beringia South weigh in on Cache Creek cougars. | |
Ask Wyoming Officials to Reunite Cougar FamilyPETA | 2012-01-26 | |
Game and Parks Releases Trapped Mountain LionLincoln Journal Star | 2012-01-30 | |
The Cougar Fund asks WY Game and Fish Department to free mother cougarJackson Hole News and Guide | 2012-01-27 | |
Cougar Family May Die Because of Government TrappersMarc Bekoff | 2012-01-26 | |
Cache Creek lioness caged, kits still roamCory Hatch | 2012-01-25 Game and Fish responds to fears for human safety; critics say move is a death sentence. | |
Mountain Lions Spotted Near Cache Creek TrailsJackson Hole Daily - Rich Anderson | 2012-01-23 A mountain lion with two approximately 7-month-old kittens were spotted Saturday near the Cache Creek trailhead, prompting Bridger-Teton National Forest officials to alert residents and trail users. | |
Thompson Park Zoo gets new cougar cub; contest for his nameYour News Now | 2012-01-04 A cougar kitten found in Montanta was given a home at a New York zoo, and now they are having a contest to name it. | |
Mountain lions sighted on Scottsdale golf courseThe Arizona Republic | 2011-03-25 A north Scottsdale couple feel lucky to have made a rare sighting of three mountain lions this week on the fourth hole of Desert Mountain Golf Club's Cochise Course. Desert Mountain resident Linda Borman said she quickly snapped a few photographs on Monday afternoon after her husband, Ty, saw the mother and her two cubs lounging on the fairway of the 546-yard, par-5 hole. | |
Good News for Mountain LionsMessenger Online | 2011-03-24 The National Park Service has announced that three mountain lion kittens were born in the Santa Monica Mountains and a new male lion was fitted with a tracking collar in the Santa Susana Mountains Area. The only other documented litter of mountain lion kittens was born in the summer of 2004. | |
Domestic cat killed by young mountain lion in south GlenwoodPost Independent | 2011-02-28 GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado — A mountain lion kitten killed and ate a house cat Saturday morning in the Park East subdivision, according to Kevin Wright, district wildlife manager for the Colorado Division of Wildlife. | |
Cougar cub seeks cuddly monikerEl Dorado Hills Telegraph | 2011-01-27 Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary received their newest resident, a 15-week-old mountain lion cub. When she was rescued by the California Department of Fish and Game in November, she weighed only 4 pounds and was emaciated and ill, according to officials. “She’s now thriving and will soon move to a public exhibit area,” the press release states. Residents are invited to help name her by casting a vote by Feb. 4 at folsomzoofriends.org. | |
One kitten killed, others rescued in lion season ironyRapid City Journal | 2011-01-18 One mountain lion kitten has been shot and killed during the first two weeks of the 2011 cougar-hunting season, while three other kittens have been rescued for shipment to zoos after their mother was killed by another hunter. | |
Mountain Lion, 2 Cubs Captured In Golden Neighborhoodabc 7 Denver | 2010-11-29 Wildlife officers tranquilized and relocated a mother mountain lion and two cubs Sunday that had become too comfortable living in a Golden neighborhood. | |
Sanctuary offers one-of-a-kind protection for mistreated wildcatsKARE 11 | 2010-10-09 The Wild Cat Sanctuary started 10 years ago as a way to put an end to the captive wildlife crisis in Minnesota and the United States. | |
Officials investigate mountain lion poachingBig Cat Rescue | 2010-11-09 The spate of recent poaching incidents in southwest Wyoming claimed another victim, this time in the Cokeville area. | |
A rare sighting captures photographer's attention9News.com | 2010-11-01 There's a lot to see here in Colorado. Sometimes you just need to know where to look. | |
Oregon Zoo sends twin orphaned cougar cubs to a new homeOregon Live.com | 2010-10-26 The Oregon Zoo this week shipped off two orphaned cougar cubs to a new permanent home at the Western North Carolina Nature Center. The 10-week-old cubs, brothers, bring to six the number of orphaned cougars the zoo has cared for in a little over a year. | |
Game warden looks for killer of lion and kittenLittle Chicago Review | 2010-10-21 Game Warden Neil Hymas is asking for the public’s help in solving a double mountain lion poaching case. | |
Mountain lions poached near Cokevilletrib.com | 2010-10-20 Wyoming Game and Fish Department game wardens are seeking the poachers who shot and killed a female mountain lion and its kitten about two weeks ago. | |
Visitors warned of mountain lion mother and cubs seen in Berkeley hillsMercury News | 2010-10-04 Officials at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Lawrence Hall of Science in the Berkeley hills are warning visitors to beware of mountain lions after a mother and her two cubs, along with deer and goat carcasses, were sighted recently. | |
Mountain Lion Kittens Killed in HuntsCare 2 Make a Difference | 2010-09-14 In 2010, 40 wild mountain lions were hunted and killed in South Dakota during an annual hunt. According to the South Dakota Mountain Lion Management Plan, five of the forty killed were kittens less than a year old. | |
Human actions set the future of wildlife in the Santa MonicasVentura County Star | 2010-08-10 n February 2009, a male mountain lion known as P-12 (for the 12th puma collared with a GPS device by the National Park Service) did what no other known mountain lion has done. He crossed under or across Highway 101 at Liberty Canyon Road in Agoura Hills. There he met a female mountain lion, P-13, and true to mountain-lion gestation, three cubs were born three months later. | |
Panther injured, loses unborn kittensFlorida AP | 2010-08-04 A female Florida panther was recovering after being hit by a vehicle near Immokalee, but her unborn kittens did not survive. | |
Cat and dog lovefest: Cougar cubs find a new momUSA Today | 2010-07-23 The cubs were given to Cholli, a German shepherd dog with five young puppies of her own. Cholli has cared for them as if they were her own puppies. | |
Rangers welcome some very cute lion kittens at Santa Monica MountainsLos Angeles Times | 2010-06-23 "Each mountain lion kitten has been implanted with a tracking device that will allow researchers to follow the kittens’ movement," according to the recreation area. "This is the first urban mountain lion study that has had the opportunity to track mountain lion kittens from such a young age. National Park Service researchers will study the new litter to see if the male mountain lion kitten will attempt to disperse to more expansive habitat when he matures, and if the females will have litters of their own in the future." | |
Orphaned ID cougar finds home at Oregon ZooFox 12 Idaho | 2010-06-10 An orphaned young cougar whose mother was legally killed near Preston, Idaho, has found a new home at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. | |
Dead panther found in Hendry CountyNews-Press.com FL | 2010-06-01 A 12-14-month-old male panther was found dead on the shoulder of County Road 833 in Hendry County this morning. | |
Third Florida panther death in 3 daysAP - Florida. | 2010-05-25 Authorities say a Florida panther cub is dead after apparently being hit by a car over the weekend along U.S. 41 in Collier County. | |
Fla. authorities search for cubs of panther killedFlorida AP | 2010-05-24 Authorities are searching for two Florida panther cubs whose mother was killed after being hit by a vehicle. | |
Local Men plead no contest in '08 mountain lion shootingNapa Valley Register | 2010-04-05 Four men have pleaded no contest to their involvement in shooting a mother mountain lion and her cubs. | |
Mountain Lion encounters can be exciting and riskyExaminer.com - Cheyenne | 2010-04-02 lthough rare, you may have the fortune (or misfortune) to run into a big cat…Mountain Lion. Now and then we hear in the news that someone may have lost a pet from their yard or a Cougar has been spotted in the neighborhood. | |
Orphaned Lane County cougar cubs heading to new homesKaty Muldoon, The Oregonian | 2009-12-18 The cougar approached. The homeowner fired. And that's the short explanation for why two strikingly elegant cougar cubs, dark spots accenting their golden coats, ended up at the Oregon Zoo over the past week and a half. | |
Lion trapped in DeadwoodMark Watson - Black Hills Pioneer | 2009-10-26 One day after wildlife officials killed a female mountain lion within Deadwood city limits a kitten was captured by a trap. | |
GF&P kills lion found in backyardAP - South Dakota | 2009-10-22 A state trapper killed a mountain lion that had been eating a deer in a homeowner's backyard in Deadwood, and now officials are looking for a home for its kitten. | |
Man recounts confrontation with mountain lionAP - Utah | 2009-10-22 A Syracuse man out for the season opener of the Utah deer hunt had a fearful encounter with a female mountain lion. | |
2 baby cougars find home at WSCClint Riese - Forest Lake Times | 2009-10-13 The Wildlife Science Center near Forest Lake welcomed five orphaned cougar cubs last Friday. The non-profit education and research facility, based in the Carlos Avery Wildlife Area in Columbus, will raise two of the cubs, both males. The three females will be taken to the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone. | |
Zoo unveils carnivore exhibitKevin Elliott - Topeka Capital Journal | 2009-10-12 A pair of mountain lions emerging from their den Friday evening were the highlight of the party as dusk settled over the Topeka Zoo's Kansas Carnivore Bash | |
Florida panther No. 113 now a motherNews-Press.com, Florida | 2009-10-08 No one knew panther No. 113 was a mom until a camera, paid for by Southwest Florida schoolchildren, captured an image of the tawny mother and her cub. | |
Researchers track mountain lions through Lockheed FireKurtis Alexander - Santa Cruz Sentinel | 2009-09-02 Two days into the Lockheed Fire, when flames were racing down the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains, UC Santa Cruz researcher Paul Houghtaling was eager to know the well-being of the area's largest predator -- the mountain lion. | |
Second cougar caught in MansonMichelle McNiel- Wenatchee World, WA | 2009-09-01 An emaciated young cougar caught by wildlife officers last Friday in urban Manson was likely the litter mate of another cougar found just two blocks away on July 4. | |
Panther color confounds expertAndrea Stetson - News-Press Fort Myers, FL | 2009-08-28 Mark Lotz has been working with Florida panthers for 15 years, but he's never seen anything like the baby panthers he recently found in Collier County. | |
Mountan Lion Cub Poses Imminent Danger?Cheri Shankar | 2009-03-03 Last week in the sleepy town of Santa Paula, California a mountain lion wandered into someone's backyard and after a brief standoff was killed by the police. Mountain lions are protected in this state mostly due to Proposition 117 which passed in 1990 and banned mountain lion trophy hunting. | |
Mother mountain lion captured, reunited with kittenHeath Urie, Colorado Daily | 2009-02-13 BOULDER, Colo. — A mother mountain lion was captured overnight Wednesday and reunited with her kitten, which was caught a day earlier while stuck in a tree in Boulder’s Newlands neighborhood. |
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