Cougar action in Banff

[Stresd]

Was just e-mailed these from a Bud. I had never seen nor heard of these before.

Last night a couple of my staff went fishing on the lake and captured
this incredible sequence of photos of a cougar making a kill. To see
this is once in a lifetime. At the same time, our 6:00 pm wildlife
cruise had just left the dock and the staff members in the fishing boat
had the presence of mind to call on their cell phone to alert our tour
drivers. This is what they saw happening.
The cougar is about 6 feet long, not including tail (a big full grown
cougar) and his victim was a 4 year old Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep. (a
Ram) He never had a chance.


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Sorry about the out of sequence. But you can get the drift of what happened. click on thumbnail to expand

[ryanb]

Hah, just another reminder to never take anything you read on the internet for truth. Do a search for cougar and bighorn on here...

[Little Hawk]

Wow! Cool pics.

Is he humping that thing or what?