killing cougar?

[MajGenl.Meade]

We own this planet, and rightly so.

That may very well be both the most foolish and most arrogant thing I have ever seen posted.

So I've been replaced eh? Ever the way with cougars

Meade

[Gob]

Forget cougars, worry about the Montys!

The biggest Burmese python ever caught in Florida's wild has been captured in the Everglades, US scientists say.




The snake measuring 17ft 7in (5.18m) and weighing 164lb (74kg) was found in Everglades National Park, the University of Florida announced.

The python - now dead - was pregnant with 87 eggs, also believed to be a record.

Non-native Burmese pythons have been blamed for a staggering decline of mammals in Florida's Everglades.

Scientists say the latest discovery shows just how pervasive the snakes - native to South East Asia - have become in South Florida.

"It means these snakes are surviving a long time in the wild," said Kenneth Krysko, at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

"There's nothing stopping them, and the native wildlife are in trouble."

He said that the snake had feathers in its stomach that would help to identify the types of wildlife it was eating.

"A 17-and-a-half-foot snake could eat anything it wants," he added.

Pythons kill their prey by coiling around it and suffocating it.

They have been known to swallow animals as large as deer and alligators.

After scientific investigation, the snake will be exhibited at the museum on the University of Florida campus for five years before being returned to the Everglades National Park.

In 2009, another Burmese python named Delilah, measuring 18ft and weighing more than 400lb, was seized by Florida wildlife officials after it was found that its cage at a home near Lake Apopka was unsuitable.

[Lord Jim]

Man, there sure are a lot of nice boots and wallets lying on that table....

[PMS Princess]

[oldr_n_wsr]

Deer are all over Long Island now, in places they haevn't been around in many years. But of course hunting them is out of the question as the "animal rights" people block attempt at culling the herd. Those same people complain about lyme disease and the deer eating up their gardens. Meanwhile the deer are small and malnourished.
A week with a bow and most of the hunters I know (who head upstate) could help keep the deer in check.
maybe a catch and release of some of those Ca cougars would help here on LI

[Econoline]

There ya go, oldr! Win-win!

[Sue U]

I have to say, I am all in favor of releasing large predatory wildlife on Long Island. Especially in the Hamptons.

[Econoline]

Win-win-win!

[Lord Jim]

I suspect there are plenty of cougars hanging out in The Hamptons already....

[dales]

Ba-da-bum!

[Lord Jim]

Ba-da-bum!

Thank you...thank you....

please try the veal, and drive home carefully...

I'll be here all week...

[loCAtek]

~clink~ ...in the tip jar.