Federal researchers declare eastern cougar extinct

Yahoo! News ^ | March 2, 2011 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

[tet68]

They make great bait trolled behind a fast boat
and the rhinestone collars give quite a flash.

[WVNan]

Yes, I think they look like yearlings, plus the fact that they are running together.

[Prospero]

This will come as a huge surprise the the pair roaming the forests of the southern Albemarle peninsula in eastern North Carolina.

[WVNan]

I think we have pretty well exploded the notion that the big cats do not inhabit the East. They may have wandered here from out West, but they are here.

[WVNan]

Here is the Eastern Cougar. What is different about them from the Western cat?

[WVNan]

Comparing this to the WV cats, I can’t see any difference. They have the same markings on the face, the same extra long tail, smaller head. I’m saying the Eastern Cougar is alive and breeding.

[WVNan]

Here is a Western Cougar. Not any difference I can see.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

I don’t get how you can imply that each person like the picture is worth less just because there are ~800 million of them. That’s just not how I view the world.

[Col Frank Slade]

HA Very good.

John Kerry walks into a bar, and the bartender says “hey John why the long face” ?

[wita]

When we got to western SD in 1979, the only thing seen of cougars was the occasional footprint. Now they are prolific, with a hunting season and a bag limit that has risen steadily as the true numbers become more evident.

After the hunting season three more were killed due to predatory behavior. Killing geese goat and pets.

This topic eases into another being pushed by a senator from SD who as an adult ought to know better but does not, and that is wilderness designation. My forefathers spent untold money and effort ridding the country of wilderness, and just like bad pennies, and early in life mistakes, it and wolfs are coming home to roost.

[americanophile]

I didn’t. You perhaps wanted me to imply that. I never did.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

OK cool! I misunderstood this post then:

“...and 6+ billion strong.”

I thought the only thing that could mean is that the number reduces the value? If I misunderstood I apologise. What did you mean?

After reading the thread, I am pleased that there is really only a very minor (if any) difference between the eastern and western cats - less than the difference between an Indian and a Pakistani if you ask me! I thought for a moment it was a distinct type of cat.

[americanophile]

Your post seemed to imply to me that the two were mutually exclusive; that it was us or them. My point was that we’re doing just fine.

[Christian Engineer Mass]

"mutually exclusive"

No, it's not my point that for us to live they must die, or vice versa. But, I've seen the attitide expressed in post #1 many times before. And in my experience, people that have that kind of reaction do not have the same reaction about people.

"My point was that we’re doing just fine."

Right, yeah. I see this as a "group mentality". "We're doing just fine" implies that because there's Jane and Harry and Joe and Karen and Bob, we don't need Laura or Kathy or John, because there are already plenty of people. I see each person as unique as if they were their own "species".

I think modern liberal society has devalued people to the point where not many people see it like that any more, and that if there's a million people who look like you, then we don't need one more. And to be honest, I think that's no more than a stone's throw from gas chambers.

[americanophile]

Well, it is group mentality, because ‘we’ are a species. We’re not big cats. To make any meaningful statements, you necessarily have to generalize...just as you might into other groups such as ‘Christians’ or ‘Engineers,’ or ‘misanthropes.’

[Christian Engineer Mass]

“it is group mentality”

What is a group mentality? Do you mean to say that a group mentality is justified?

[americanophile]

"What is a group mentality?"

Referring to humans as "we're."

[Emperor Palpatine]

Maybe we should feed YOU to the cougars, you dog hater.

[mamelukesabre]

blah blah blah

I own a lab.