My wife and a neighbor walked the dogs this morning. Neighbors stopped them on three separate occasions to warn them of a mountain lion sighting. It seems that a cougar killed a deer yesterday in a neighbor’s yard and then sat with his lunch all day in the shade of a oak. Who knew that wild carnivorous animals actually killed other animals? The contractor working on the house some fifteen yards away took plenty of photos. Turkeys and deer roam in our neighborhood, mountain lions are never far away.
In other related news…
In a BBC article we learn that polar bears (even Knut the polar bear in a German zoo) actually kill fish. Germany’s Green Party is not amused.
As the writer of Marginal Revolution says, “While I can imagine valid criticisms of zoos, this is not one of them. It also should be noted that Knut’s normal diet does not consist of tofu.“
Poor Knut. He must be so bored. I remember when there were polar bears at London Zoo, seeing one stand and sway his head continually, driven mad by his imprisonment.
Polar bears need to roam hundreds of miles. They should never be kept in zoos.