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CharacterBrief9121 t1_is6dy7g wrote

Reply to comment by Jerryjb63 in Don't believe the propaganda, Bigfoot is in PA and is definitely *REAL* ! by Blexcr0id

Don’t believe the Bigfoot crap but there’s mountain lions/bobcats in north lycoming

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WookieeSteakIsChewie t1_is6q8i0 wrote

Mountain lions are very different than bobcats. Bobcats do live in PA. Mountain lions don't.

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CharacterBrief9121 t1_is6xe35 wrote

I went ahead and did some research, the mountain lion federation (MLF not Milf) says there are no population known of mountain lions east of the Rockies minus a small endangered pop in Florida. Wildlife informer goes both ways stating there is not any mountain lions in pa but there have been sightings. PSU explicitly says No cougars in PA. I swear I’ve seen the yellow of a mountain lion. I do not believe there is a significant population. In my neck of the woods it’s sparsely populated with a lot of woods and open unused land I’ve seen plenty of bob cats. Only ever thought I’ve seen a mountain lion a few times. They have lived here before and there is a claim that the last one was killed in the late 1800s but how is somebody in 1870-90 going to be able to verify that claim. I think they went the way of the wolf, virtually becoming something different. Like wolf and “eastern coyote” which I know exists I’ve seen it kill family members chickens that roamed their yard.

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Farleymcg t1_is6sg4x wrote

The fuck they don’t live here. I saw one bound across a gravel road in pike county and in Sussex county nj. PA is prime mountain lion habitat.

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WookieeSteakIsChewie t1_is718ya wrote

Ok. Find me ONE picture of one that can be confirmed to be in PA.

You can't because there aren't any, even though we're covered in game cameras.

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fallowcentury t1_is73fnf wrote

I'm with you. it's like, have you been to our woods? I told a ranger two days ago that I got chased for like a quarter mile by a bobcat some years ago. he hadn't heard anything like that before, but it happened to me in black moshannon. so much goes on out here unreported and disbelieved.

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Mijbr090490 t1_is7li5p wrote

Yeah and once you spend some time up in those parts, you start to see how a mountain lion or two could roam undetectable for the most part. I saw what I believed to be one almost 20 years ago on Hazard road in Clinton county. There was the carcass of a fawn we saw laying in the road and a tan colored animal with a long, thick tail that went into the woods as we pulled up.

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