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09-19-2008, 08:17 AM
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Anything is possible in NJ
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/9...umsmallzr5.jpg
There are more folks than you can believe that have tigers and lions as pets and keep them in apartments! Someone possesed of that level of reality would not be journeying too far beyond their spectrum of behavior by releasing their "pet" into the wilds of north Jersey. Go, be free, enjoy!
So I would not be surprised to see a dead mountain lion on the road. Question can easily be answered during an autopsy if it was wild or not. You reallly can't draw any conclusions about the existence of a general population of mountain lions from one dead lion.
Do you know several years back a moose wandered down into the Delaware Gap region?
Do you know beaver have set up dens in Manville and Dukes park in Raritan?
Foxes around here have been prolific the last few years.
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09-19-2008, 08:25 AM
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No.. I think I heard one one night but never saw it. Foxes were a bit scarce as well this year.. hunters?
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Plenty of foxes down in Monmouth County last season. |
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09-19-2008, 11:03 AM
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Sarcasm - Just one of the services I offer.
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Maybe these big cats are the remaining animals supposedly set free when Jungle Habitat closed its doors!  |
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09-19-2008, 06:05 PM
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Maybe these big cats are the remaining animals supposedly set free when Jungle Habitat closed its doors! |
Truth be told... mountain lions were released into the most northwestern part of NJ to help control the deer population. I don't think they expected them to travel so far south! I saw a dead one on Rt. 287 near Morristown a few years back..and just up ahead was a baby deer..dead as well. |
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09-19-2008, 06:53 PM
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anything is possible but that......
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No mountain lions were at Warner Bros Jungle Habitat.
If the fox population dips in an area the most likely cause is mange or distemper......... not hunters.
There was a dead camel on rt 206 that got out of Duke estates many years ago but I doubt you could conclude there is a camel herd roaming the wilds of Somerset county.
After releasing mountain lions in the NJ wilds the state began to replace their vehicle maintenance workers with trained raccoons. Supposedly a shoddy repair on a troop car by a raccoon was the reason for the governor's crash.
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04-08-2009, 10:33 AM
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This topic is becoming poppular again.
Now that the nice weather is here and people are walking in our parks, this topic is becoming popular again.
MOUNTAIN LIONS IN NEW JERSEY
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04-08-2009, 10:35 AM
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Due a 'search' on the topic of mountain lions in CITY DATA and read all the strange stories of Moutain Lions, where there should not be mountain lions.
MOUNTAIN LIONS IN NEW JERSEY |
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08-22-2009, 05:38 PM
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Did anyone see any mountain lions in New Jersey in 2009
Did anyone see any mountain lions in New Jersey in 2009?
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08-23-2009, 11:00 AM
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I grew up in Sussex County - on the beginning of the Kittatinny Mountain chain. When I was little (in the 1970s) I could hear them at night (their cries etc..). It was kind of scary even just to hear.
Bottom line - yup they are there.
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08-23-2009, 09:05 PM
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I grew up in Sussex County - on the beginning of the Kittatinny Mountain chain. When I was little (in the 1970s) I could hear them at night (their cries etc..). It was kind of scary even just to hear.
Bottom line - yup they are there.
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ABCNEWS: Mountain Lions Believed Prowling in New Jersey
It's an interesting article. |
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