Not much of a problem, Doug, unless you got poodles or small kittens
in your backyard. We've got a locally resident 200 lb male lion on
the ridge line on our property just above our house (about 200 meters
away). Spotted him 3 times in 13 years. Never bothers the cats (we've
got two indoor/outdoor versions). Occasionally, it snags a hare or
fawn (because we find the remains). Has never bothered humans as far
as we know (no precipitous population decline locally).
As for recording, never got close enuf for long enuf to get a vox
sample on this one, but I do have others from different locations.
Bernie
>Hi fellow nature recordists,
>
>I though I'd share some picture and a story that has been unfolding around
>my home here in central Arizona.
>
>About two weeks ago a young male Mountain Lion (AKA: Puma), Puma concolor,
>started hanging around our house. He killed a Raccoon one night in the bac=
k
>yard and has been staying here since then. He weighs about 45 pounds (20 K=
g
>or so), and is about 8 months old. We called the Game and Fish officials,
>who came out and tranquilized him and tagged one ear, and put a radio
>transmitter in the other ear, so they could track him by air every few wee=
ks.
>
>Since then he continues to visit every few days - he even got sprayed by a
>Striped Skunk outside our bedroom a few nights ago - he regretted that, an=
d
>so did we, the room still smells like a skunk!
>
>I've [posted a bunch of pictures (I've taken over 300 so far!) at
>http://www.pbase.com/dougvg/alex_the_mountain_lion&page=3Dall. So far I
>haven't gotten any good recordings, but I will, I'm sure. They are pretty
>quiet most of the time unless they are killing something or angry at the d=
og.
>
>Doug
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