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[Akrnaf2]

No it can't be Chupacabra he restrict himself to goats

Yeah, I guess that's true. I'd hate to meet up with one, if they even exist. They sound like a cross between a baboon & hairless chihuahua, with a temperament like a rattlesnake on a bad day

They only exist in the minds of very very bored people

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I saw, or read somewhere, that there's no such thing as a panther, but there's plenty of Floridians who would dispute that. A friend of mine swore he'd seen one in IN when he was a kid, as well.

 

[Saris]

They can have up to 7 kits per litter so it has brothers and sisters and parents at a bare minimum, but likely aunts, uncles and cousins. Not to mention unrelated ones in the area.
http://www.vancouverwildlife.com/raccoons/raccoon-facts

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. I don't live in the best kept neighbor hood so there are plenty of places for an urban raccoon to live undisturbed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I saw, or read somewhere, that there's no such thing as a panther, but there's plenty of Floridians who would dispute that. A friend of mine swore he'd seen one in IN when he was a kid, as well.

MO dept. of conservation always said they didn't exist here - even though we saw the occasional one at our farm.
They've since acknowledged that some survived in very remote areas of the Ozarks.
(same goes for bears)
Now there are confirmed sightings all over the state. 64 since 1994. Most down by where our farm was but even one here in St. Louis county.

http://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-n...-lion-reports/confirmed-mountain-lion-reports

This is an older video.

Lots of bears in MO now.

They only exist in the minds of very very bored people

Apparently lots of very bored people in Latin America. That or baboons crossed with Chihuahuas.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. I don't live in the best kept neighbor hood so there are plenty of places for an urban raccoon to live undisturbed.

That and they are much more common in urban areas than rural because of all the easy food sources.
The link I gave you is for Vancouver. So that's up in your neck of the woods.

 

[kwhites634]

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MO dept. of conservation always said they didn't exist here - even though we saw the occasional one at our farm.
They've since acknowledged that some survived in very remote areas of the Ozarks. Now there are confirmed sightings all over the state. 64 since 1994. Most down by where our farm was but even one here in St. Louis county.

http://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-n...-lion-reports/confirmed-mountain-lion-reports

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Is there a difference between the cougar & the panther, other than the black of the panther?.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

There is no difference. Cougars, mountain lions, pumas, panthers, painters, etc.. are all the same species and color and that species is the same regardless of if they're found in northern Canada or southern Argentina or anywhere in between.
It is the second largest cat in the Americas after Jaguars (el tigre).

What are known as black panthers aren't cougars but rather jaguars.
There is no documented evidence of a melanistic cougar.

Other native North American cats, Lynx and bobcat, ranges abut with one another with lynx being larger and more northerly.
In Central America the next largest cats after Jaguars and cougars are ocelots, margays, jaguarundis and tigrillo/oncilla in that order with the same and additional species in South America.
Jaguars are huge, over 6' long. Only lions and tigers are bigger. They used to be in the SW US like AZ, TX, and NM. The last know female was killed in AZ in the '60s and around the same time a male was killed in NM.
Killing Jaguars in the US is illegal but only a couple have been sighted in the last 50+ years.
In CR they are only in a couple national parks and remote regions of indigenous held territory in the Talamanca mountains. They're a little more common in South America but nowhere are they very numerous.
Oncillas are about the size of a small house cat.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

@daxigait have you ever seen bear tracks or other sign on your property?
I think most of the bears are east of Springfield and south of I-44.

The northernmost bear they're tracking with a GPS collar is a brown female
around Viburnum.

 

[kajira]

Welp. I gave my chickens bananas, they won't eat them. LOL

I gave my adult flock lettuce, broccoli and a carrot, but my goats stole them. So my daughter split a popcicle up between the chickens. LOL Apparently, my adult flock will defend their bounty if it's popsicles.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

I dropped an egg yesterday on accident...my chickens swarmed! I didn't have to clean up a drop. LOL.

 

[daxigait]

@daxigait
 have you ever seen bear tracks or other sign on your property?

No, not on mine. There have been sightings of a big cat about ten miles away near the Spring river. Predators actually heard or seen include skunk, coon, possum, cyote pack, and dogs. There was a bobcat a few miles away.