ORIGINAL: NorthPA
"Adult males may be more than 8 feet long from nose to end of tail and generally weigh between 130 and 150 pounds. Adult females can be 7 feet long and weigh between 65 and 90 pounds."
"A single male lion may require up to 175 square miles of territory for its home range. They prefer wild areas frequented by deer. One lion will consume about one deer per week. A lion will cover the remains of its prey and return to the kill to feed until the meat begins to turn.
They are most active at dawn and dusk, the times when deer are out feeding."
Seems as though dusk and dawn are when most hunters are in the woods in deer habitat --- same time as cougars would be out and about!
How many cougar kills have been found by hunters? And, how many have seen cougars return to feed for several days on a single deer kill?
If people are seeing cougars, why aren't they seeing any of the sign that proves cougars are there; skat, hair, provable tracks, kills, dens, good photos, on and on.
I'd never say there isn't any, I'd just say --- show me.
It's also funny that most stories are verifed by a preacher or some other unquestionable religious person!
Close to here, in Mehoopany, PA there supposedly was a truck delivering cougars that stopped at a diner to ask directions to the PGC field office.
Who did the driver ask directions from; A preacher, who would never lie.
In Laporte twp., PA two couples witnessed (at 3 a.m.) a WCO, and two men releasing a pair of cougars along rte. 220 near a place called Panther Lick. (that is a real place).
Who were those two couples? A minister and his wife, and another church couple returning from a religous retreat near State College.
Amen brother.
can a religious person lie, YES..i only made this info available because this person is HUNTER like us, he does not lie, grew up with him..
he is good person that happens to go church a lot more than me..does this make him saint, no..
but ,you are right, i was trying to make the case for a lion by saying he would not LIE, CHEAT, SWEAR ETC..
does that mean he is lieing now, i doubt that after knowing him for 50 years..
why would he lie?does it make him famous that he saw a lion?
now, i do notlie but have told a few woppers in past.. i saw cougar,am i lieing?did i not know what i saw?
i agree with you, just because a person is pillar of community does not mean he is not fibbing or saw what he thought he did..
as for why we cant find tracks, 1 reason is the PGC will not investigate a sighting and take prints..
other is,most of sighting are in SUMMER/FALL..you tell me why, hell, i dont know..
next is, sighting are usually spread many years apart..only thing i can think of is cougars are on move..
i dont know, just guess..if they stayed in a area steady, you would see more sighting..you would think..so, only answer is they move a lot ,come back, move again..only guess..