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yeah, i agree. sure doesn't look like a coyote to me. Wrong color, lower legs are too thick. Almost looks catlike, but the DEP says we have no cougars and bobcats have no tail.
Its stance looks some what catish, but having rehabilitated 2 eastern mountain lions (cougars, puma). The tail is too bushy, and it starts thin at the top of the back and goes outward with no curl, also mountain lions are VERY big animals the male I worked with was 152 lbs and the female was 136 lbs.
Also what part of CT are you in. I am 30 min west of Danbury and have with my own eyes seen a wild Eastern Mtn. Lion. So the DEP doesn't always know where ever single animal is.
Can you get us tracks from where that pic was taken?
Eastern CT, this pic was taken in Coventry. I have a friend who is a wildlife biologist for the DEP and he says that there probably mountain lions in CT, but that the DEP won't confirm that until one gets hit by a car.
I looked for tracks, the camera was outside for about a week and it rained before i got there...no tracks
Stover, I spend a lot of time in upstate NY and have heard a lot of stories from locals about mountain lions, but apparently the DEC denies they are there.
Is it possible that we are all assuming that black section in the back is a tail, when really it is a shadow.
If you use the farthest left part of the body as the left rear leg, it doesn't line up with the left rear foot that crosses in front of the right rear foot. There for it would leave me to believe it is the tail, in which case it has the exact characteristics to make it the tail of a Eastern Mtn. Lion. I think the shadow is blocking off the left rear leg and confusing everyone.
Also the ears would be closer in and taller if it were a Wolf.... The ears and jaw line look to be an Eastern Mtn. Lion as well.
What added to the confusion is that the property where this picture was taken has a lot of coyotes...I've never seen one that lightly colored...they tend to be very dark grey
Here in North Dakota, the North Dakota Department of Fish and Game said for YEARS that there were no mountain lion in North Dakota. A couple years ago, they opened a mountain lion season, where if you had a fur bearers liscense, you could shoot one if you came across one. They issued 5 permits, and within two months they were filled. The next year, they issued ten, and they were also filled fast.
Don't always believe what they tell you. Mountain lions will cover alot of ground in a short period.
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