Lion Study (they eat more than they thought)

[Bfishn]

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyl...cle_d9cf046b-2c47-539f-a267-972e72e570b6.html

"One male Couger killed 18 moose in less than a year" Cripes!

 

[Captain Ahab]

This would be right up Sandstrom's alley.

 

[wildeyes]

18 to 41 lbs. of deer a day. Damn funny there are deer still around.

 

[labhunter66]

18 to 41 lbs. of deer a day. Damn funny there are deer still around.

It does seem weird that the impact isn't greater, or maybe it is and a person just doesn't realize it. There are part of the country though with substantial mountain lion populations that still have healthy deer populations so who knows.

 

[BrokenBackJack]

They said in the article the cat bites the windpipe or spine in the neck.
This isn't always the case as one of my buddies in MT has seen 2 elk killed at seperate times by a cat. Both of them were killed by the cat reaching around the nose while clinging to the side of the neck and it pulled the nose towards itself with one quick motion and broke the elks neck. This happened twice one was a big cow and the other was a spike. Buddy said he wished he would of had a movie camera and filmed it. He said it was really something to see and never would have believed it possible without seeing it himself.
They are killing machines that is for sure.

 

[dean nelson]

It does seem weird that the impact isn't greater, or maybe it is and a person just doesn't realize it. There are part of the country though with substantial mountain lion populations that still have healthy deer populations so who knows.

Well you would probably have to factor in deer that were going down anyway due to disease or injury or any other such reason. They will target them first and that's more or less playing with house money. Now how much that plays into it is hard to say but it must be there to at least some extent.

 

[LBrandt]

Why do I stay fat on 2 big macs a day diet.

 

[Bfishn]

Why do I stay fat on 2 big macs a day diet.

Because your not chasing those big macs down, your just sitting on the couch and cramming them down your pie hole.

 

[Retired Educator]

There is very little fat or carbs in the deer or elk.

 

[SDMF]

They are killing machines that is for sure.

 

[dean nelson]

There is very little fat or carbs in the deer or elk.

That's a good point but I wonder if a pure meat eater like a lion wouldn't be able to better digest it.