Comments on: Cougars, and coyotes, and bears, oh my! http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ray Kircher http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35603 Ray Kircher Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:09:20 +0000 http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35603 Waking up to a Mountain Lion howling in the morning is bone chilling. Someone would have reported that. I do believe proper management of property is why these animals are increasing their domain, not only DOE land but home sites within Oak Ridge seem to attract many songbirds and wildlife. I would say entitlement has its boredom in the wilderness also. Thank you for the top class info from ORNL. It only shows we have more than we think when we have questions about what is happening. Waking up to a Mountain Lion howling in the morning is bone chilling. Someone would have reported that. I do believe proper management of property is why these animals are increasing their domain, not only DOE land but home sites within Oak Ridge seem to attract many songbirds and wildlife. I would say entitlement has its boredom in the wilderness also.

Thank you for the top class info from ORNL. It only shows we have more than we think when we have questions about what is happening.

]]> By: Ray Kircher http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35592 Ray Kircher Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:29:54 +0000 http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35592 I questioned this letter and asked my friends who do raise Mountain Lion cubs. He did say it was possible one escaped, but the howling would be prominent early in the morning. I haven't heard about this howling in Oak Ridge. One point he made out was that a zoologist would check for paw prints. Did she look for paw prints? Coloring and markings is not a definite source for identifying. So I looked around for other reports of other animals since a Mountain Lion (Cougar) is out of its habitat in Oak Ridge. <a href="http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-541X%28198407%2948%3A3%3C957%3AMADOBI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage" rel="nofollow">Movements and Dispersal of Bobcats in East Tennessee</a>, J. Thomas Kitchings, Jay D. Story, <em>The Journal of Wildlife Management</em>, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), pp. 957-961 By its size, I would say it was a Bobcat. I questioned this letter and asked my friends who do raise Mountain Lion cubs. He did say it was possible one escaped, but the howling would be prominent early in the morning. I haven’t heard about this howling in Oak Ridge. One point he made out was that a zoologist would check for paw prints. Did she look for paw prints? Coloring and markings is not a definite source for identifying. So I looked around for other reports of other animals since a Mountain Lion (Cougar) is out of its habitat in Oak Ridge.

Movements and Dispersal of Bobcats in East Tennessee, J. Thomas Kitchings, Jay D. Story, The Journal of Wildlife Management, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Jul., 1984), pp. 957-961

By its size, I would say it was a Bobcat.

]]> By: Oak Ridge: where the high school students are smarter, the Unitarians are more populous, and the feral cats grow strangely huge : KnoxvilleTalks.com http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35583 Oak Ridge: where the high school students are smarter, the Unitarians are more populous, and the feral cats grow strangely huge : KnoxvilleTalks.com Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:33:38 +0000 http://ellensmith.org/blog/2008/03/11/cougars-and-coyotes-and-bears-oh-my/#comment-35583 [...] Smith notes there have been cougar sightings in Oak Ridge lately: It’s romantic to think that native cougars have somehow managed to survive in [...] [...] Smith notes there have been cougar sightings in Oak Ridge lately: It’s romantic to think that native cougars have somehow managed to survive in [...]

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