01-26-2007, 07:51 AM
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#4 (permalink)
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| | Re: Lion/Hiker near miss
cc wrote:
> GeeDubb wrote:
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>> "MattB" <somedudeus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:51umv5F1m7fmkU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Wow. Scary!
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16817149/
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>>> Glad he got away alive.
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>>> Matt
>> "After the attack, game wardens closed the park about 320 miles north
>> of San Francisco and released hounds to track the lion. They later
>> shot and killed a pair of lions found near the trail where the attack
>> happened.
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>> The carcasses were flown to a state forensics lab to determine if
>> either animal mauled the man"
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> That is absolutely ridiculous. They should be prosecuted. It's obviously
> revenge, given the odds of actually finding the same lion. Last time I
> checked, mountain lions were predators in "nature". . . which a park
> should represent . . . sheesh.
I think they are more concerned about the lion having a taste for human
blood. Still, they could have tranquilized the animals, rather than
kill htem to do the tests.
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