Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Minnesota Cougar

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is disputing hunters' claims that a cougar ate a deer shot north of Duluth last month.

But two DNR biologists who conducted a necropsy on the deer carcass say they did see signs that a large carnivore -- a wolf, dog, bear or possibly a cougar -- could have grabbed the deer by the throat after it was shot.

- AP/StarTribune (link here)

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

How do they know it wasn't a dog?

Orthoclase said...

According to the Wisconsin DNR, most cougar sightings are golden retrievers.

So maybe it was a dog.