![]() ![]() on December 22, 2009.” Credit: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources via LiveScience ![]() This photo was taken by an automatic camera in a cornfield in Dunn county, Wis. “The first photographic evidence of a cougar in Wisconsin that would eventually travel all the way to Connecticut. His journey, which is the longest documented of any mountain lion, would come to an end in a place where his species had not been seen in almost a century. Through DNA analysis, physical evidence left behind, eyewitness accounts and camera traps, biologists were able to trace his origin back to the Black Hills. The mountain lion, who has been nicknamed Walker, was discovered to have journeyed almost 2,000 miles from South Dakota’s Black Hills all the way to Connecticut, not that far from New York City. ![]() For wildlife journalist and author William Stolzenburg this young male mountain lion would become the extraordinary and unlikely hero of his book Heart of A Lion. where they have been considered officially extinct for decades. For scientists his death would eventually reveal an incredible and ultimately tragic journey, while giving hope to the idea that mountain lions could one day reclaim their former territory in the Eastern U.S. On Ja mountain lion was struck and killed by a car in Connecticut, for most his death would go unnoticed, a cat that was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, another causality of urbanization. ![]()
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