On Tue, 29 May 2007 03:48:56 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

D.Duck wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:29:08 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:38 -0400, HK wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2wxdg3
Was that picture taken in the east? Every year, there seem to be more
and more sightings. Enough that I'm starting to wonder if they aren't
making a return. I personally know someone who swears he has seen one
here in NJ. He's a pretty reliable type, but . . . I haven't seen any
confirmations.
There have been confirmed sightings in my woods and around the
neighboring farms.

They are mountain lions - not cougars. Confirmed by professional
trackers.

Fisher cats are also making a huge come back in this area.

What is the difference between an mountain lion and a cougar?

They are all the same animal, just different names used in different
areas of the US.

Having just looked it up, apparently there are differences between
areas - not just only including names.

They are not exactly the same even though they are all parts of the
same genus.

Then again, I'm not a biologist.

On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:41:06 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Having just looked it up, apparently there are differences between areas
- not just only including names.

They are not exactly the same even though they are all parts of the same
genus.

Then again, I'm not a biologist.

I'm thinking the science has changed. Until recently, there were
considered to be 32 subspecies of pumas, but in 1999, Melanie Culver did
a DNA study and suggests 6 subspecies, of which one, P.c. couguar covers
all of North America.

http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi...t/91/3/186.pdf

On Tue, 29 May 2007 11:32:48 -0000, thunder
wrote:

On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:41:06 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Having just looked it up, apparently there are differences between areas
- not just only including names.

They are not exactly the same even though they are all parts of the same
genus.

Then again, I'm not a biologist.

I'm thinking the science has changed. Until recently, there were
considered to be 32 subspecies of pumas, but in 1999, Melanie Culver did
a DNA study and suggests 6 subspecies, of which one, P.c. couguar covers
all of North America.

http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi...t/91/3/186.pdf

Sounds good to me.