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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2013 11:52:16 GMT
There are three big cats of moderate size sometimes referred to as "panther", the cougar, the leopard, and the jaguar. With both leopard and jaguar, it is normally the black version known as a "black panther".
The Bear Almanac - Second Edition:
Mountain lion - Grizzly bears steal from mountain lions, but each has a healthy respect for the other. Enos Mills wrote in The Grizzly, "Bears and lions are not neighborly, and at best each ignores the other; but one bear I knew followed a lion for weeks... profiting by food-supply- the excessive killing of the lion.
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2013 11:45:12 GMT
Credits to Malikc6: This is an account of hunters going grizzly bear hunting. When they were searching for bears, they saw a fight between a cougar an a grizzly bear. The bear won by breaking the cougar's neck with a paw strike. The bear missed it a few times but it got it. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BA18900816.2.72&srpos=5&e=-------10--1----0bear+paw+swipe--A FIERCE ENCOUNTER. (PECK'S BTTN.) I had made a business visit to Gardiner, a small town lying on the northern boundary of the Yellowstone National Park, and having oompleted tho business that called me thence, was seated one cold wiuter evening in the hote^ office, where a number of old-timer mountaineers were relating 1 adventures of early days, when one of them related the following story of a fight witnessed by him between a panther and grizzly bear in tho Teton mountains in Wyoming. I give tho yarn below, Just as he told it, in tho dialect language of the mountaineer. 'Twas in the 'arly 70's," began the speaker, as he bit off a huge mouthful of plug tobacco and commenced masticating tho same with great vigour, "that I seed tho darn'd'st fight you ever hearn tell of, over in the Tetona. 'Twos between an old grizzly and a painter, and the way they fit wuz a caution to snakes. I hed bin out in tho Big Horn kentry guidin* a party o' tenderfeet sports frum N'York, but game wuz purty scarce in thot section thot fall, so ono day wo pulled stakes and lit out fur the- Tetons. I toll ye there wuz lots o' game thar, and deer and elk wore bo plentiful that the tendorfeot couldn't help but kill suthin' ono't. in a while. They continued thla kind 'o sport until they got sort o> tired of it and began ter look round far Var. Their main ambition seemed tor be ter get a swipe at a grizzly, and they wuz keen fur a bar hunt so one day I sez to 'em Boys, how'd ye like ter take a trip overi to "Wildcat canyon and kill a bar or two "•Goodi first-rate 1 bully J 1 they all cried, and so next morni*' we lit out. 'T was twolve or fo'teen miles to tho canyon, but I kuowed bar was plenty thar, and we'd stand a sight botter show tor kill 'em thar than auywhar else in the mountains. "We arrived at tho canyon all right and hunted round, but didn't see anythin' o' b'av thet day, bo tow'rd evenin' I shot a deer and we pitched camp on the creek. We used part of the deer fur supper, and tho balanco wo hung to a limb o' a tree only a few rods from camp. Wall, that night, 'twas about two o'clock, I guess, wo wus all 'wakened by the durndest howlin' and screechin' you ever hearn tell of. "We all jumped up, and what do you think we seo'd? Why, right thar under tho tree whar the deer wuz hangin' was a monster grizzy bar and a painter, and they wuz fightin' ter beat thunder. The bar would grab the paiuter and give him an awful hug, but tho cat would slip out o' hia clutches, ho wuz so nimble, and would make thet old bars hair fly fur some time. We watched thet fight with interest, I kin tell you, but the animiles never seemed to notice us, fur they kept right at it, and the way the painter would tear flesh and the way the grizzly would thump tho cat round beat anythin'. Howsomever, it hed to como to an end somo time, and when they hed boon at it about half an hour, we noticed that the cat wuz beginnin' to git somewhat the worst of tho fight. Old grizzly wuz pretty well winded, too, and seemed to' want to end tho fight purty quick, fur he wuz filuggin' the painter over tho head in great iihape with his paw. Finally he guv her ouo awful welt and she foil over plump dead, with her neck broken. We then opened fire on tlio grizzly, and brought him to the ground with a few shots. When wo examined him, we found that the flesh along one side o' the ncok and on tho left shoulder wuz all tore off by the painter's claws, and ho wuz other wiso badly done up but his great strength had kept him up until he had conquered his enemy. AVhen wo Bkinned the cat wo found thet half the bones of her body had bin broken by the huggin' sho received. Thet wuz an awful fight, boys, and I never 'xpect to see another like it, fur it is not often $iat a paintnr will get up dander enough to fight, loastwiso with a grizzly bar." Yes, thet's so!" assented the others. Aud then at my simple invitation to take something, they ranged alongside the bar, and with surprising unanimity of sentiment called for corpse reviver straight," and we all drank to the health of the story toller.
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Post by Admin on Sept 17, 2013 20:44:58 GMT
Bears by Richard Perry:
In ( North ) America a few black bears are killed by pumas. Although averaging not much more than one hundred fifty pounds in weight, a puma is such an agile carnivore that it can compete on equal terms with the much more massive jaguar; but one would not expect it to threaten a grizzly weighing up to nine times its own weight, and accounts by the old mountain hunters of the American West indicate that most pumas, though bristling and growling, would edge off the trail and give the disinterested grizzly the right of way. Similarly, when feeding on its kill, a puma, though snarling and spitting in the most threatening manner and holding its place until a grizzly was within a few feet, would ultimately surrender the kill. It would strike at the bear as it dashed off, but the latter would not even bother to take notice of its going.
Nevertheless, an occasional grizzly is shot with long, deep scars on its back; and the fact that a medium-sized one may s ometimes be killed by a puma is indicated by the account of an Army officer hunting with two Apaches on the Pecos during the last century. According to Seton, they had tracked a large puma to a canyon, where their attention was attracted by a fearful din:
A middle-sized brown bear was standing on his hind-legs with his back against a big rock and was yelling bloody murder. The lion was crouched on the ground about twelve or fifteen feet from the bear. They waited there quite a while, the lion in the position of a cat about to spring, working his tail, with his ears laid back and getting ready for a jump as he moved his feet back and forward, as you will see a tomcat do. Once in a while he would growl. At last the lion charged the bear and grabbed him, and they both went down together and the dust flew up so that it almost hid the two fighters. In a little while the lion suddenly let go and sprang back to where he had been before. Both animals were bleeding and each was licking its wounds. The bear kept up his moaning and screaming and would have been mighty glad to get away, but he did not dare to expose his back to the lion. At last the lion charged the bear again, and this time with his claws he tore open the bear's back, and his claws must have reached some deadly part, for the bear fell over dead and the lion went off to his old place and began to lick his wounds again. After a while he took hold of the bear's carcass, and began to drag it down the hill and cover it up with leaves and brush.
*A middle-sized brown bear = an adolescent grizzly bear.
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