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Saturday, November 14, 2026Nov 14

Case: Yellowstone bears, Colorado cougars and a hot lead solution

National Park Service photo via AP / Mountain lions, also known as cougars, panthers or pumas, have a thriving population in the American West, which can lead to encounters with and attacks on humans.
National Park Service photo via AP / Mountain lions, also known as cougars, panthers or pumas, have a thriving population in the American West, which can lead to encounters with and attacks on humans.

People and animals are different. There is a news flash for you this morning as you have your coffee and Wheaties.

If you keep up with such things as I do, you have been seeing more reports in the news and on the internet labyrinth about animals attacking (and sometimes eating) human beings. I really don’t think this should come as a big surprise to most of us, but it is.

(READ MORE: Our thinking on predators has changed dramatically)

As we have discussed before in these pages, predators do what predators do. They kill and eat other animals. When the prey sometimes turns out to be human, the predator doesn’t think it is something unusual.

The most recent talk in the news cycle about this subject comes from Colorado and deals with mountain lions, also known as cougars among other names.