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Cougar spotted in Twin Cities, Wisconsin has roamed far and wide looking for love
DNA test of droppings links far-flung sightings to a single male cat
By Chris Niskanen
cniskanen@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 08/17/2010 11:40:28 PM CDT
The same cougar that roamed through the Twin Cities in December traveled hundreds of miles in Wisconsin last winter, leaving tracks, scat and [...]
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Posted in ECF, Education, Minnesota on Aug 30th, 2010
Mountain Lion Incident Management and Capture and Handling for Natural Resource, Animal Control and Law Enforcement Professionals
There are increasing confirmations of mountain lions in the Great Plains and Midwest as they naturally disperse from more western areas. Feral or escaped captive mountain lions, also known as cougars or pumas, are sometimes detected as well.
Though these [...]
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DNA sample from Twin Cities flawed
By Andy Rathbun
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DNA test results from recent cougar sightings in Minnesota and Wisconsin could not confirm that all the sightings were of the same animal.
The tests by wildlife officials did show that the cat seen in Wisconsin’s St. Croix and Dunn counties were the same. But samples [...]
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At the website (link below) you’ll find a news video about the Chicago incident and an enlargement of the trail camera photo taken in western Wisconsin. Some have speculated that the cat in the photo is not a cougar, but the long, dark-tipped tail show that it is. The barring on the inside of the [...]
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Apparent cougar tracks found in western Wisconsin
If confirmed, were they left by same animal sighted in northern suburbs?
By Andy Rathbun
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Has the cougar seen prowling the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities crossed state lines?
A farmer has found what he suspects are cougar tracks heading east across farmland in Spring Valley, Wis. Barry [...]
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The article erroneously states that Iowa cougar was a female. It was later determined to be a male.
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Twin Cities cougar checking out Stillwater now
Cat continues its eastward trek through northern suburbs
By Mary Divine
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That’s one big cat, and he’s on the move.
The cougar making the rounds of the northern suburbs the past couple [...]
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This is indeed a cougar track. Stillwater is on the St. Croix River, which is the boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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Cougar spotted crossing Highway 5 in Stillwater
By Mary Divine
mdivine@pioneerpress.com
That’s one big cat, and he’s on the move.
The cougar making the rounds of the northern suburbs the past couple of weeks apparently headed [...]
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December 12, 2009
A letter to the editor:
Understanding cougars
Contrary to the purported threat of a cougar wandering Twin City suburbs, the statistical chances of the cat attacking a person are about as rare as being struck by a chunk of meteor (“Cougar faces a deadly fate if it stays in town,” Dec. 9).
In [...]
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