Comments on: Minco mountain lion was from the Black Hills

By: Terri Scott

Terri Scott — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:39:37 +0000

I’m a lady bow hunter who lives 2 1/2 miles from Ft. Gibson lake near Wagoner. While sitting on stand approximately 4yrs. ago I had a big mountain lion come down a deer trail within 15yd. upwind of me. I didn’t move, it came to an abrupt halt and looked right at me 17ft. up in a tree. I know he didn’t wind me or see me move, he turned around and calmly walked off. They have a keen sense of their surroundings and are real illusive from what I observed.

By: lane batot

lane batot — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:30:04 +0000

Mr. Harrison, IF you saw a “black panther”, I hope you realize it was NOT a black cougar/puma/panther/painter/catamount/mountain lion. Despite zillions of cougars killed and bred in captivity for eons, there has YET to be a single case of a melanstic individual. If you saw a black “panther”(originally a term used to designate LEOPARDS), it was an escaped/released black leopard or jaguar(which DO have black color phases). This pehenomenon of seeing black panthers is so common, so widespread, it is enough to ALMOST make one think a feral population of released/escaped captives has established in this country, EXCEPT, of course, no one ever seems to see the more genetically dominant, common SPOTTED variety! Curious, isn’t it?……

By: ODU Hunting News - Oklahoma Mountain Lion Migrated From Black Hills, South Dakota

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:31:37 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:37:19 +0000

Jimmy, the South Dakota population has been studied heavily and many were tagged once they were established in the Black Hills. You can find online the details about what percentage of young males and females from that area stayed in the area or left when they reached the age of dispersion. Only recently have many of them been hunted so the population expanded quickly in that first decade and those are the ones that have dispersed throughout the plains including to Oklahoma.

By: Oklahoma Mountain Lion Migrated From Black Hills, South Dakota | The TF&G Report

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:32:00 +0000

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By: johnny harrison

johnny harrison — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:34:22 +0000

what a beautiful mountain lion, so sad he was hit and killed, i like too tell my story in yexas 3 summers ago i was fishing by myself underneath a bride by elbert,tx on hwy 79, near throckmorton,tx in the summer fishing for catfish there and about 6pm across the brazos river from me came out a big black panther about the same size of this cat, he came down too the creek and got him a drink and look around and see me sitting ther on the bank fishing, i never did move, but this black panther has a eyesite like a eagle and was looking dead straight at me while drinking for the second time before dissapearing into the thickets, just had too tell my story also you never know what you might run up on or something is coming too you…

By: Cougar News » Blog Archive » Male killed at Minco, Oklahoma in November 2010 was from Black Hills, at least 3 years old

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:37:31 +0000

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By: Jimmy Gallagher

Jimmy Gallagher — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:42:25 +0000

1) Makes no sense that every lion being found dead in east and midwest over last 2 years is from South Dakota, when the Dakotas lacked a big cat population prior to 1995.
Cougar populations do NOT increase at such a drastic rates in any other North America puma population.
The current cougar population in South Dakota is NOT more than 100! So who is deliberately dumping them in other parts of the east and south, to make it appear the Dakota Lions are traveling widely from the upper Midwest?