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With mammals, it is almost always the males that move the most and the furthest. In birds it is often reversed.
Brent
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/ ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Yep! I have lived in 11 states since 1983!! 
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I volunteer as an "open space patroller" for the Irvine Ranch Conservancy which controls 45K+ acres of wildlands here in Orange County, CA (always wanted to be in the Space Patrol....). Our naturalists set cameras by watering spots in the mountainous areas of eastern OC and regularly catch cougars on film (also LOTS of bobcats, coyotes, gray foxes, etc). One spectacular shot shows mama lion with 3 nearly mature "kittens"--she must have been one busy and VERY fierce lady to get three kits that far along!
In any of the OC wildlands, hikers and volunteers are not allowed to go alone, and are instructed in how to avoid an attack. Unfortunately, firearms are not allowed in most of these areas; I would feel much better served by my GP-100 than a whistle and a staff. Fortunately, there have been very few incidents. Now the deer have a predator that ISN'T a Volvo or a Peterbuilt!
I for one welcome lions back, but there will come a time when they too need to be trimmed. I hope no one has to get killed or maimed to make that point.
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Mike, it's no joke that pepper spray - anti-bear stuff works. If you can't pack a pistol, pepper spray ain't such a terrible alternative.
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Mike,
many years ago I worked in NAVINTCOM activities here in Florida with a hellova great fellow named Mike Armstrong who transfered back out to the West Coast in the area that you are in. Not all that rare a name, but any chance it could be you?
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Sorry, Woods--I may be his evil doppelganger, but I'm not the guy himself. "Michael" was the most common male baby name back when I was born during WWII and Armstrongs apparently have rewarded the world wih many kids. What makes it worse is that I look like a stardard wide-load squarehead gringo geezer (Armstrongs come from the formerly Danish part of Scotland). I regularly get confused with other bubbas. It may be that children were secretly being cloned back then (like B-24s and Dodge Power Wagons and LSTs, all of which I somewhat resemble....). Just in case the war went on forever and they needed lotsa "one size fits all" doggies.
I'm lookin into the Mace. I looked at that poor guy's face again.
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