First there was “Cocaine Bear,” and now we have Colorado's Hot Tub Mountain Lion.
If this were a tiger or a leopard, “Bob and Cathy” most likely would have been soggy toast. But mountain lions are not aggressive cats by nature, any lion ecologist worth his or her salt will tell you. And unlike tigers and African lions, they do not roar, but purr.
It’s a strange disparity between how we treat known individuals yet assign nefarious motives to others who are just trying to survive. Along with behavior research is the accumulating knowledge that healthy cougars on the landscape equal healthy ecosystems, which is kind of important given the new report that the world is in trouble by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We should fear the death of biodiversity and the destruction of our natural world, much more than a mountain lion, and we should celebrate knowing mountain lions exist and do what we can to protect them.
The story this week was definitely unusual, but we should take it for what it is, an interesting tale of one curious cat. No one was killed or seriously injured, which is also typical for mountain lion encounters, often wrongly labeled as conflicts.
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