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Originally Posted by BigDon
Swift, wouldn't mountain lions serve your cause better? Dispite news stores to the contrary they eat fewer joggers than bears do and not nearly as mainy domestic animal conflicts as wolves. They do have the most successful predation success ratio of any mammalian predator I've ever heard of, some 78%. Compare that to the second place winner, the african lion, at 22%
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I can't say I've studied it carefully. Wolves and black bears were indigenous to Ohio before the arrival of Europeans, I didn't know if Mountain Lions were, but now that you mention it, and I look, I guess they were (
reference the linked map on this page). I'm ok with reintroducing cougars too, but I suspect the idea will be as popular as wolves.