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Last line in that story. "After the big cat was killed in Milford, the DEEP conducted an investigation and said there are no more in the state."
Funny. 698 square miles of water. 4895 square miles of land. Thats 19,650,926,592,000 Square Inches. Did they really cover all square inches of land to definetively say there are none left? And even if you did, was it done all at once? lol
Last line in that story. "After the big cat was killed in Milford, the DEEP conducted an investigation and said there are no more in the state."
Funny. 698 square miles of water. 4895 square miles of land. Thats 19,650,926,592,000 Square Inches. Did they really cover all square inches of land to definetively say there are none left? And even if you did, was it done all at once? lol
That mountain lion ( or one or more) has been roaming through the East Haddam/ Lyme area for many years . Too many reliable people have seen it or them.
There's also one out in the Ledyard area and one was killed on 1-95 in Guilford several years back. Hundreds of motorists saw the one in Guilford and took photos of it, but the state cleaned it up fairly quickly and denies it ever having been there.
IMO there's a small population of mountain lions in the state- maybe they'll help to keep the deer in check.
The one they found in 2011 was a male wild cougar from the Black Hills (South Dakota) that wandered east over an undetermined period of time. The males are left out of the pride except when it's mating time, so it could just be isolated males who wander. There is no "population" of cougars in Connecticut, or anywhere else on the east coast except a certain area of Florida (known as Florida Panthers, the namesake of the hockey team).
Sorry, you've got your cats confused. Mountain lions don't live in prides. They are all, male and female, solitary animals, except for a female with cubs. They all wander, seeking their own territories. Sooner or later wandering male meets up with wandering female, it's spring , love is in the air and before you know it ... baby momma and baby daddy
There is no way to know for sure at this point in time, how many are in CT The DEP will never admit it, but large numbers of people have seen them.
The whole state is a pantry full of deer for them.
I didn't get my cats confused, I got my terminology confused. The females protect their kittens and remain close with them until the kits are ready to go out on their own. The males are not invited to hang out with the female and her kittens.
Also, the deer feed hunters and bears, among other things. Oh and cars on the highway. The DEP won't admit it, but large numbers of people claim to have seen little green men transporting their families to space ships for probing of their private parts too. And yet, I manage not to believe that either.
So true. There is a lot of ignorance regarding wildlife in this state. I guess that's true for pretty much everywhere, though.
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Originally Posted by ctcoldplay11
Can anyone tell me why the DEP has been so fervent in their denials of a mountain lion population in CT? Like, who cares?
If they acknowledged that there was a population of mountain lions in Ct., there would be a public outcry demanding that "something be done" about it. The masses are terrified of wild animals stalking and eating them. Hunters would go on a rampage hoping to kill all the mountain lions. When reading online news articles about coyotes, I see people freaking out and demanding that "something be done" about getting rid of them, too.
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