Their education is going so well that they are being used to work with other species, such as cougars, moose, and bighorn sheep. |
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When Europeans settled South Dakota they considered cougars dangerous pests. |
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Its not unusual for people to see bears, and even cougars, on Burnaby Mountain. |
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Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars, coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood. |
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The lake stretched serene and untroubled to the opposite shore where a hiker can still encounter bears and cougars. |
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Knowing how and where cougars travel and thrive is important to maintaining a healthy cougar population, experts say. |
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There are huge Douglas firs, cedars, and hemlocks behind us, and cougars come down to the lake to drink. |
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Over the past 18 months the Cougar Network has documented 21 cougars in nine midwestern U.S. states and one Canadian province. |
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She was the only cougar that lived in the Endless Woods, because cougars were extremely rare in those parts. |
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Central to this proposition is the recovery of existing top predators such as grizzlies, cougars, and wolves. |
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I didn't think anything of it at the time but there were grizzly bears, cougars and who knows what else. |
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Except for mating pairs, or mothers with kittens, cougars travel alone, hunting roughly a deer a week to survive. |
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I'm much more relaxed if a girl starts the conversation, and usually only cougars will go and hit on guys. |
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And with the greater power and freedom that today's women enjoy, cougars are becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. |
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Known variously as pumas, panthers, or mountain lions, cougars are fairly common in the West, but not in the East. |
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But except for the Florida felines, as far as one can tell, wild cougars no longer live east of the Mississippi. |
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With wild lands cleared for agriculture and game hunting on the rise, populations of cougars and other large predators took heavy hits. |
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Borrowing a method used to study human demographics, he and his colleagues took samples from 352 cougars in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada. |
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Grizzly bears, cougars, owls, woodland caribou and elk live there. |
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I live in the middle of a forest with the bears, deer, and cougars, and get to listen to music all day. |
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Fourteen of the study badgers have died, due mainly to highway kills and predation by cougars and bobcats. |
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Since the early 1990s, researchers have been applying the technique to spectacled bears, cougars, foxes, pine martens, chimpanzees, gorillas, and many other species. |
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I know he is an avid bird watcher and that he has been known to chase cougars from time to time. |
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Wolves, bears, and cougars were the massed enemy on the hill, and our stories were of their unbridled ferocity. |
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However, some of the sightings have proved to be cougars from southern areas that had likely escaped or been released from captivity. |
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Conflict between cougars and humans is extremely rare, however, it always pays to be prepared. |
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The Mammal Gallery features the wildlife of Canada, from polar bears to white Arctic hares, moose, bison, caribou and cougars. |
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The number of cougars in a given area, or the animals' population density, depends on the number of available prey and suitable hunting sites. |
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Young cougars that have recently left their mothers are also more prone to starvation than their elders. |
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Other means of eradicating cougars have ranged from hounds, traps, and poison to bounties. |
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Grizzly bears, black bears, grey wolves, and cougars have been known to prey on bison. |
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The BC government is recommending a reduction of wolves and cougars on Vancouver Island to protect the Black-tailed Deer. |
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In 2002, it was recommended to remove 40 wolves each year for the next 3 years and an extension to hunting season for cougars to over 9 months. |
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Where they coexist with moose, cougars take a substantial number of moose calves and yearlings. |
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Where home ranges do overlap, cougars still avoid each other and remain solitary, gathering only to mate. |
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Compensation will be provided for death or injury caused by coyotes, bears, cougars, lynxes, foxes, eagles and wolves and producers. |
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North American felid predators of red foxes include cougars, Canadian lynxes and bobcats. |
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Wolves encounter cougars along portions of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent mountain ranges. |
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Bobcats, lynxes, and probably cougars may prey on red foxes. |
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Its managers look forward to giving them the company of cougars and bears. |
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Although cougars are elusive and usually avoid people, there are about four attacks and one fatality per year on humans in the United States and Canada. |
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When you take part in activities in the Park, you are in a protected natural wilderness environment that is home to numerous animal species. They include black bears, coyotes, wolves and on rare occasions even cougars. |
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However, elsewhere throughout their range, cougars have been found in a variety of habitats ranging from large swampy areas to dense coniferous stands. |
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In July 2004, WWF-Canada and Lafarge North America signed a partnership agreement to help conserve large carnivores, such as grizzly and black bears, timber wolves and cougars in the Rocky Mountains. |
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These species, uncommon in Canada outside of Natural Region 3, share the region with more familiar creatures such as grizzly bears, mountain goats, wolverines, mountain caribou, badgers, white-tailed jackrabbits and cougars. |
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In the early days of European settlement, bear hunters made their living hunting and trapping bears, wolves, and cougars because of their presumed danger to livestock and perhaps people. |
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These home ranges are the largest reported for a carnivore of this size, and in many areas they rival the home ranges of bears, wolves, and cougars. |
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With the removal of bounties and with enlightened management and conservation efforts for cougars, there is renewed hope that the species will persist throughout Canada if suitable habitat remains available. |
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Other terrestrial predators include cougars, brown hyenas and various species of canids, which mostly target the young. |
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Wolves and cougars typically avoid encountering each other by hunting on different elevations. |
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Jaguars, cougars, spider monkeys, as well as tapirs, and anteaters live in the woods of Central America. |
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More cougar trophies in hunters' rec rooms would mean more smaller cougars in the suburbs and pastures. |
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Wolves in packs usually dominate cougars and can steal kills. |
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Taxpayers should find it outrageous that the wildlife department has wasted almost half a million dollars paying houndsmen to kill cougars for a fakey study. |
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Two penalties saw them stretch their lead to 16-10 as Cougars lost their composure and handed them points on a plate. |
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Eastman opened the Souris tourney Friday night edging the host Cougars 2-1 as Tyler Bram had both Eastman markers. |
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Cougars face an uphill battle as they struggle to rebuild confidence for Sunday's clash with Leigh. |
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If the first half belonged to the Cougars the opening period of the second half certainly belonged to Barrow. |
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Cougars were trailing 22-16 when Adam Mitchell floated a high ball across to the right wing. |
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Again the Cougars showed their fighting sprit to open the scoring after the interval. |
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The Cougars inbounded the ball with two seconds remaining but were unable to get a shot. |
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It wasn't long before the Cougars were over, Colin Pickles brilliantly stealing the ball in a one-on-one tackle and racing in at the corner. |
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The Cougars have their first run-out on Sunday in a pre-season friendly at home to Rochdale Hornets. |
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Cougars lifted their game in the second half and pummelled the Lions line, but could not find the final touch. |
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Cougars normally eat deer, but will also prey on raccoons, cats and dogs if the opportunity presents itself, he said. |
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In the final analysis, though, it was errors in defence that cost the Cougars dearly. |
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The Cougars pour in 84.2 points per game, more than any other team in the tourney. |
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Cougars had lost the cutting edge which took them to seven successive victories before being halted in their tracks by Sheffield Eagles the previous week. |
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With a 14-scoreline in almost as many minutes it looked like the Cougars were going to run up a cricket score but the game disintegrated into a scrappy affair. |
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Cougars are also known as mountain lions, panthers, and pumas. |
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But the Cougars have been far feistier, forcing three games into overtime before losing. |
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Other rugby league clubs in West Yorkshire are Batley Bulldogs, Dewsbury Rams, Featherstone Rovers, Hunslet Hawks and Keighley Cougars. |
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Cougars and manthers are always on the hunt for the energetic, supple, and naive. |
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Richmond Doe had 10 kills and Zing Nawl nine digs for the Cougars. |
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