Is That So?
By OLGA BURNS
The mountain lion is well
on the road to extinction in
the United States for two reasons-many
still think him
dangerous to man, and he is
considered a ruthless killer of
valuable animals.
But is this big cat, also
known as the cougar or puma,
realy deserving of such a rep
utation? So far as authenticated at
tacks on adults is concerned,
they are so rare they form
'only a minute fraction by at
tacks on men by bulls and
'cows. In fact, horses probably
have, killed many more men
"than cougars have. As for
authenticated attacks on chil
dren, they are also rare, and
in at least two cases the cou
gars were so old and feeble
the children beat them off
without grave injury to them
selves. The cougar looks as if he
ought to be dangerous. He is
so powerful he can and does
give the man-killing jaguar a
tough time in South America,
and he does like to follow
men in the woods. That is
most disturbing, of course, but
very likely he does it out of
curiosity and not bad intent.
In South America they have
been known to come so close
to men at night as to awaken
them by purring. -and the fa
mous naturalist W. H. Hudson
wrote thus of them: "It is no
torious that where the puma
is the only large beast of prey
'it is perfectly safe for a small
child to go out and sleep in
the plain."
The case againset cougars
as livestock killers, however,
is something else. They kill
sheep, pigs, cattle and horses.
Indeed, their liking for horse
flesh is so strong there is rea
son to believe that is why the
original horses of the Western
hemisphere were wiped out
thousands of years ago'.
Amount Negligible
- Nonetheless, the amount' of
livestock ' they kill in this
country today is negligible.
What few cougars there are
left tend mainly to prey on
deer and other wild aninials.
But even that is held against
the cougar. The deer is valu
able as a meat animal and for
sport, and so those the cougar
gets are regarded as ail eco
nomic loss which justifies a
bounty on the big cats. That is
faulty thinking, though. Un
told numbers of deer starve
to death nearly every year be
cause of poor game conserva
tion measures.- Others are
saved by expensive feeding.
In other areas the deer are so
thick they cause sizable crop
losses. .
All these losses are due to
'their population being out of
balance. If cougars ,were not
exterminated from these
areas, they would do much to
establish the balance of na
ture and would in themselyes
form a valuable game animal.
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