What the Next Move of Mountain Lions and Bears Might Be, an Article Adapted from October 2011
Posted by ETIS Hub Blog on Sunday, May 7, 2017 Under: Animal attacks and environment
What Mountain Lions and Bears are Doing Next
Updated on October 21, 2011
Revised/adapted May 7, 2017
Time continues on, so does technology, population growth [in many areas], and the development of infrastructure and structure for man's doings.
So, as man builds, animals have to move for their survival accordingly.
This is what is happening, even in America today.
There have been within the last 4 years (as of 2011), bear hunts, just outside the major cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and not too far from Washington DC, incapacitating bears of record sizes. Historically, the exterior coat of bears that might have roamed through the regions around the Allegheny to the Florida Everglades had features similar to sloths.
Where exactly, did these creatures roam, is not the most important science point, at least not of this article. What is important, is that the creature was dangerously close to the urban Washington DC. This seen in gauge of today's scales, especially with increased transportation efficiency, and the development of housing areas that continue to spread outward from urbanized areas.
Remember: like those in the National Zoo in DC, [they may or may not still be there,] as a fact, the exterior hue or color of the body of the puma was pitch dark, like the midnight sky with no clouds, maybe true black; keeping the same puma form
Now, let's look at the trend of the cougar-mountain lion-puma, in terms of traveling animal behavior.
Without further ado, this creature, as a generality, seems to be making its way towards the Washington DC locale.
Here are facts to take in consideration:
"Mountain lions are shy and extremely stealthy when it comes to not being seen by people. Tracking collar studies have shown that even lions living on the urban edge in close proximity to millions of people are still almost never detected by us."
http://www.mountainlion.org/newsroom.asp
Based on the photographs of the animals that are or were associated with the Ohio-Zanesville incident, the animals in the photos have undergone deformity, mild, and subtle. The deformity at first take, is they have undergone structural stature changes, such as shorter vertebrae than their counterparts in the wild, zoo, or wildlife refuge. This probably because they have been away from their natural habitat for so long, that they have not developed in the ordinary way, they have not stretched their limbs in the manners and number of times they normally would out in the wild; resultant, these body parts stopped stretching or growing. Compensations are made by the body, and they, the animal, look a bit disproportionate [or slightly 'off'].
Importantly, the emotional state of these animals the result of their circumstances, could be described as sad, and might behave in manners that are also off, such as being overly aggressive.
Back to Zanesville, Ohio, are these animals, the ones that survived, even still in Ohio, or did they travel east to West Virginia?
What has happened since the initial escape?
With all the cross-breeding possibilities, who knows what animal might show face 4 or 5 years from now.
Basically, the moment these animals escaped the exotic farm, it was too late.
Eradication of the escaped animals does not guarantee eradication of the problem.
What can be deceptive, is eastern Ohio sits right at West Virginia, West Virginia, not too large, sits right beside Virginia, where there are critical buildings right in there like DC, practically speaking, just a few hours drive.
There are not too many monkeys (might be an animal that escaped) indigenous, [to my knowledge,] to the United States.
Primary concern, when it comes to safety, are mountain lions, bears, wolverines, and extraordinarily large marsupials which might be infectious.
It is not recommended to take being bitten by one of these marsupials as a light matter
Chances are, they are only going to waltz away from their hidden habitat, at night.
So, until the dangerous animal escapee situation has been resolved, don't go traversing through the woods, taking short-cuts to night jobs, or take back-road forested areas to weekend night parties, cutting through neighbors back-yards, walking off the highway if your car breaks down, to get to a gas station faster, and scenarios such as these, especially alone, even if you know the area.
On the subject of crossbreeding, synthesizing of breeds, hybrids, and other formations along these -- now, in the wild, for two or more species of animals to cross-breed might be a subject of distaste. For safety reasons there are some essential 'must know' things:
The golden bear, as a prime example, has a resurgence; even if extinct, such as the California golden bear on the flag, there is what can be taken as an analogy to a language group. Before the language was actually spoken in today's form, the name of the language, and all its changes have always existed. Words in the language might also be comprised of the combination of other languages.
In much the same way, the golden bear, with different nuances of gold over time, seem to make their appearance.
Bears these days, even polar bears, look sleeker and meaner, and have been noted to swim for thousands of miles, literally 1000 or more miles, in search of food, and stable habitat. There are recent photographs of vertical climbing of slopes that are straight up and down.
What you know and learned, and might expect of animals, that could be dangerous, from years back, are no longer the rules, such as which to constrain your mental images to. These creatures now have the ability to swim like fish, climb like mountain climbers, and most of all, show-up in places, like outside your office building when you would never expect.
For more on extensive cougar travel, read: 'Cougar Shot in Chicago; Was 1,000 Miles From Home?'
url: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080417-cougar-shot_2.html
Of concern is, the mountain lion that got away, from the animal farm in Zanesville, what happens when he or she meets [other lions, like] the mountain lion that the boy in Pike County, Illinois [ref. October 3, 2011] just claimed scratched him a few weeks ago?
Those who follow animal trends, know that the next stop for a dangerous mountain lion unrestrained and a threat to the people in October 2011 was going to be in Ohio. How it happened, or why it happened, might not have much to do with where it happened.
After viewing the photo of the scratches on the boy in Pike County, where recent advent is he claims were from falling from a tree, it is tough to discern at first glance either way.
The fact that there have been other mountain lion-cougar sightings around the same time, make it beside the point; we, as in those of us that live in the U.S., need to be prepared for those types of events.
What are the possibilities, insofar as the future of the mountain lion in the U.S.?
What kind of mountain lion is going to show up ever so closer to Washington DC in just a few years?
One idea, and often wise, is to develop a strategy to prevent both attacks on humans from mountain lions, while preventing the destruction of mountain lions, in the early going. Take the measures to mitigate the situation now, instead of a melee in the middle of the night and have no success.
Here are some related stories:
"09/23/11 BOISE, Idaho — A 10-year-old Idaho boy who came face-to-face with a mountain lion in rural Boise County escaped with minor scratches – and concerns that his friends at school wouldn't believe his story, according to state wildlife managers... The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Friday the mountain lion was tracked down and killed after the encounter late Thursday. The boy, whose family asked not to be identified, received first aid at home for minor scratches and was expected to get a tetanus shot Friday..."
url: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/mountain-lion-scratches-boy_n_978387.html
"Tuesday, October 18, 2011 ODESSA, TX -- A 4-year-old boy is hospitalized after he was mauled by a mountain lion at the West Texas home of a relative who owned the cat..."
url: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=8395645
"10/19/11 ...three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys – were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo. A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal still on the loose... Those destroyed included six black bears, two grizzlies, a wolf, a baboon and three mountain lions... "All these animals have the ability to take a human out in the length of a second," ...Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them. At least nine people have been injured since 2005 and one person was killed..."
url: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/terry-thompson-muskingum-county-animal-farm_n_1019641.html
"1999 to 2010...on the subtropical island...comprised of 42 invertebrates, 61 reptiles, 69 amphibians, 17 fish, 385 plants, and 41 mammals ... Madagascar ...now experiencing the growing environmental problems that come with modern industrialization, as in so many other wild places around the world..."
url: http://planetsave.com/2011/06/07/over-600-new-species-found-in-madagascar-during-past-decade/
How to Help Protect Yourself and Your House from Mountain Lions
Mountain Lions are usually between 100 and 175 pounds. Visualize, [don't really visualize], a 150 pound cat, a 4 legged animal, not a lot of fur that gets stuck in places, very little body fat, like an Olympic wrestler or boxer that weighs about the same, and maybe not quite as fast as a cheetah, but still fast, give it 50 miles per hour. A mountain lion in a fit of hunger, delirium, frightened, angry, startled or confused, you should remember this: You have to do more than just stay at the house or in your vehicle.
Here are steps to take and be sure of:
Updated on October 21, 2011
Revised/adapted May 7, 2017
Time continues on, so does technology, population growth [in many areas], and the development of infrastructure and structure for man's doings.
So, as man builds, animals have to move for their survival accordingly.
This is what is happening, even in America today.
There have been within the last 4 years (as of 2011), bear hunts, just outside the major cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and not too far from Washington DC, incapacitating bears of record sizes. Historically, the exterior coat of bears that might have roamed through the regions around the Allegheny to the Florida Everglades had features similar to sloths.
Where exactly, did these creatures roam, is not the most important science point, at least not of this article. What is important, is that the creature was dangerously close to the urban Washington DC. This seen in gauge of today's scales, especially with increased transportation efficiency, and the development of housing areas that continue to spread outward from urbanized areas.
Remember: like those in the National Zoo in DC, [they may or may not still be there,] as a fact, the exterior hue or color of the body of the puma was pitch dark, like the midnight sky with no clouds, maybe true black; keeping the same puma form
Now, let's look at the trend of the cougar-mountain lion-puma, in terms of traveling animal behavior.
Without further ado, this creature, as a generality, seems to be making its way towards the Washington DC locale.
Here are facts to take in consideration:
- There were orders to shoot to kill exotic animals just yesterday, October 19, 2011, in the Ohio, Zanesville area, which is eastern Ohio
- A mountain lion was shot in or near Chicago, Illinois in 2008
- In Madagascar, over hundreds of new species of animals are evolving each decade; there stands the chance that one or two 'dangerous' species of dangerous animals can evolve here in the United States
- This could extend to implying there might exist species or subspecies of bears, mountain lions, wolves, foxes, and those kind, which have adapted to the methods of man's efforts to exterminate them
"Mountain lions are shy and extremely stealthy when it comes to not being seen by people. Tracking collar studies have shown that even lions living on the urban edge in close proximity to millions of people are still almost never detected by us."
http://www.mountainlion.org/newsroom.asp
Based on the photographs of the animals that are or were associated with the Ohio-Zanesville incident, the animals in the photos have undergone deformity, mild, and subtle. The deformity at first take, is they have undergone structural stature changes, such as shorter vertebrae than their counterparts in the wild, zoo, or wildlife refuge. This probably because they have been away from their natural habitat for so long, that they have not developed in the ordinary way, they have not stretched their limbs in the manners and number of times they normally would out in the wild; resultant, these body parts stopped stretching or growing. Compensations are made by the body, and they, the animal, look a bit disproportionate [or slightly 'off'].
Importantly, the emotional state of these animals the result of their circumstances, could be described as sad, and might behave in manners that are also off, such as being overly aggressive.
Back to Zanesville, Ohio, are these animals, the ones that survived, even still in Ohio, or did they travel east to West Virginia?
What has happened since the initial escape?
With all the cross-breeding possibilities, who knows what animal might show face 4 or 5 years from now.
Basically, the moment these animals escaped the exotic farm, it was too late.
Eradication of the escaped animals does not guarantee eradication of the problem.
What can be deceptive, is eastern Ohio sits right at West Virginia, West Virginia, not too large, sits right beside Virginia, where there are critical buildings right in there like DC, practically speaking, just a few hours drive.
There are not too many monkeys (might be an animal that escaped) indigenous, [to my knowledge,] to the United States.
Primary concern, when it comes to safety, are mountain lions, bears, wolverines, and extraordinarily large marsupials which might be infectious.
It is not recommended to take being bitten by one of these marsupials as a light matter
Chances are, they are only going to waltz away from their hidden habitat, at night.
So, until the dangerous animal escapee situation has been resolved, don't go traversing through the woods, taking short-cuts to night jobs, or take back-road forested areas to weekend night parties, cutting through neighbors back-yards, walking off the highway if your car breaks down, to get to a gas station faster, and scenarios such as these, especially alone, even if you know the area.
On the subject of crossbreeding, synthesizing of breeds, hybrids, and other formations along these -- now, in the wild, for two or more species of animals to cross-breed might be a subject of distaste. For safety reasons there are some essential 'must know' things:
The golden bear, as a prime example, has a resurgence; even if extinct, such as the California golden bear on the flag, there is what can be taken as an analogy to a language group. Before the language was actually spoken in today's form, the name of the language, and all its changes have always existed. Words in the language might also be comprised of the combination of other languages.
In much the same way, the golden bear, with different nuances of gold over time, seem to make their appearance.
Bears these days, even polar bears, look sleeker and meaner, and have been noted to swim for thousands of miles, literally 1000 or more miles, in search of food, and stable habitat. There are recent photographs of vertical climbing of slopes that are straight up and down.
What you know and learned, and might expect of animals, that could be dangerous, from years back, are no longer the rules, such as which to constrain your mental images to. These creatures now have the ability to swim like fish, climb like mountain climbers, and most of all, show-up in places, like outside your office building when you would never expect.
For more on extensive cougar travel, read: 'Cougar Shot in Chicago; Was 1,000 Miles From Home?'
url: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080417-cougar-shot_2.html
Of concern is, the mountain lion that got away, from the animal farm in Zanesville, what happens when he or she meets [other lions, like] the mountain lion that the boy in Pike County, Illinois [ref. October 3, 2011] just claimed scratched him a few weeks ago?
Those who follow animal trends, know that the next stop for a dangerous mountain lion unrestrained and a threat to the people in October 2011 was going to be in Ohio. How it happened, or why it happened, might not have much to do with where it happened.
After viewing the photo of the scratches on the boy in Pike County, where recent advent is he claims were from falling from a tree, it is tough to discern at first glance either way.
The fact that there have been other mountain lion-cougar sightings around the same time, make it beside the point; we, as in those of us that live in the U.S., need to be prepared for those types of events.
What are the possibilities, insofar as the future of the mountain lion in the U.S.?
What kind of mountain lion is going to show up ever so closer to Washington DC in just a few years?
One idea, and often wise, is to develop a strategy to prevent both attacks on humans from mountain lions, while preventing the destruction of mountain lions, in the early going. Take the measures to mitigate the situation now, instead of a melee in the middle of the night and have no success.
Here are some related stories:
"09/23/11 BOISE, Idaho — A 10-year-old Idaho boy who came face-to-face with a mountain lion in rural Boise County escaped with minor scratches – and concerns that his friends at school wouldn't believe his story, according to state wildlife managers... The Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Friday the mountain lion was tracked down and killed after the encounter late Thursday. The boy, whose family asked not to be identified, received first aid at home for minor scratches and was expected to get a tetanus shot Friday..."
url: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/23/mountain-lion-scratches-boy_n_978387.html
"Tuesday, October 18, 2011 ODESSA, TX -- A 4-year-old boy is hospitalized after he was mauled by a mountain lion at the West Texas home of a relative who owned the cat..."
url: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=8395645
"10/19/11 ...three leopards, a grizzly bear and two monkeys – were captured and taken to the Columbus Zoo. A wolf was later found dead, leaving a monkey as the only animal still on the loose... Those destroyed included six black bears, two grizzlies, a wolf, a baboon and three mountain lions... "All these animals have the ability to take a human out in the length of a second," ...Ohio has some of the nation's weakest restrictions on exotic pets and among the highest number of injuries and deaths caused by them. At least nine people have been injured since 2005 and one person was killed..."
url: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/19/terry-thompson-muskingum-county-animal-farm_n_1019641.html
"1999 to 2010...on the subtropical island...comprised of 42 invertebrates, 61 reptiles, 69 amphibians, 17 fish, 385 plants, and 41 mammals ... Madagascar ...now experiencing the growing environmental problems that come with modern industrialization, as in so many other wild places around the world..."
url: http://planetsave.com/2011/06/07/over-600-new-species-found-in-madagascar-during-past-decade/
How to Help Protect Yourself and Your House from Mountain Lions
Mountain Lions are usually between 100 and 175 pounds. Visualize, [don't really visualize], a 150 pound cat, a 4 legged animal, not a lot of fur that gets stuck in places, very little body fat, like an Olympic wrestler or boxer that weighs about the same, and maybe not quite as fast as a cheetah, but still fast, give it 50 miles per hour. A mountain lion in a fit of hunger, delirium, frightened, angry, startled or confused, you should remember this: You have to do more than just stay at the house or in your vehicle.
Here are steps to take and be sure of:
- Windows and easy areas of entry, should be strong, or reinforced. If you know you live in area which has a remote possibility or history of mountain lions on the loose, it probably is not wise to simply sit idle in a house that has easy view into the house through the windows from outside, if the window openings are large enough for a mountain lion to fit through, and the windows are thin, such as only a single pane. For vulnerable windows, iron bars might be smart; triple pane windows might help. Window crossbeams, if they are old rotten wood, they will snap like twigs; don't rely on these either.
- Lock your doors at night. Animals know how to turn objects to the right and left, such as a doorknob, or compress a door handle.
- Last thing you want is for a mountain lion to come crashing through your window, or skylight entry.
- Do not sleep or keep your eyes closed in a car where no else can see you or come to your aid. It is not recommended to sleep in your vehicle in desolate places alone where no one else can see you, truck stops with wooden areas behind it, or sides of the highway in rural areas. The reason to stay in your car is so that you can drive away from the mountain lion, in combination with barricading yourself to some degree, not guarantee that the car will completely protect you.
- Do not assume you have the situation completely under control if approached by a mountain lion, or try to trap to film exciting footage for YouTube and such websites. Priority number one is maintain top safety level, and focus on this until the situation is clearly over.
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