Loyalist Dave
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So they closed a park that lies about 7 miles from the DC border, known as Greenbelt Park, and administered by the US Park Service, when a woman reported she saw a mountain lion. After checking the area, and finding numerous animal tracks, the US Park Service found evidence of coyotes, but not a cougar. With the past years there have been several unconfirmed sightings of a cougar in a county park about 30 miles Northwest of Greenbelt. The park has since been reopened.
There are plenty of deer in the area to keep a cougar very well fed, and it could possibly avoid leaving much evidence of it being around, plus not prey on folks' domestic pets, such as the family dog. Coyotes are not even close to cougars in appearance, so I wonder if the suburbanite simply freaked out when she saw a 'yote, or if she did see something like a cougar? (I wonder if a glimpse at a very mangy coyote, so no hair, would make one misidentify?)
LD
There are plenty of deer in the area to keep a cougar very well fed, and it could possibly avoid leaving much evidence of it being around, plus not prey on folks' domestic pets, such as the family dog. Coyotes are not even close to cougars in appearance, so I wonder if the suburbanite simply freaked out when she saw a 'yote, or if she did see something like a cougar? (I wonder if a glimpse at a very mangy coyote, so no hair, would make one misidentify?)
LD