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Posted by Kent (174.23.180.172) on 09:16:19 04/17/13
An interesting article on cougars south of the park. It turns out wolves are not cougar friendly.
"Last year, about two miles away, cougar F51 gave birth to three kittens. Using the GPS data, Elbroch visited the den to verify their numbers. This winter GPS coordinates led him to two of them again. This time he found just carcasses, the casualties of run-ins with wolves."
"Their study, ...which measures the effects of wolves on the cougar population, turned up perhaps the most shocking results: The population, they found, has fallen by half since the project started. About 18 adult mountain lions are now thought to inhabit Jackson Hole, Elbroch said, along with an equal number of cubs and "dispersers."
"Wolves appear to be knocking them back," Elbroch said. "And they seem to be targeting kittens." Competition, not predation, is the driving factor."
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