The CAT came BACK.

WILDLIFE conservation; FELIDAE; CATS; MULE deer; WHITE-tailed deer; CARNIVOROUS animals; HUMAN-animal relationships

AS SIOBHAN DARLINGTON branches Grand six-year-old Forks, of a female B.C., forestry her cougar slash-pile tracking named gear between approached C10 beeped that Rock ever the Darlington Creek faster. tangled and A had been monitoring through a satellite-linked collar was beneath the debris. In a growing cougar population, some suggest using the cougar hunt to control numbers, thereby increasing opportunity for big-game hunters and reducing potential human-cougar conflicts. Understanding what cougars are eating and where is a critical piece of Darlington's work, aimed in part at understanding patterns of cougar predation on mule deer. [Extracted from the article]

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