01-26-2007, 08:01 AM
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#5 (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...
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>>> Wow. Scary!
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16817149/
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>>> Glad he got away alive.
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>>> Matt
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>> "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.
Maybe. I'd think with dogs tracking them there is more likelihood of
getting the right one(s) would at least be better than just shooting the
first ones they could get.
I also see your point about nature, but like it or not humans have
pretty much removed themselves from the food chain. I see flaws with
doing this in terms of how things "should" play out, but if it was me,
my friends or my family involved, I'm less concerned with how the food
chain was designed to work.
Matt
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