Just a little nutty brain storm on this. What if we line our backyards with deer and other animals that cougars eat? Have a safari track between yards? Like feed them better and then they don't need to attack us. Everyone become vegetarian and let the cougars have all the cows. Or let every kid have a pet deer that they walk around with and the cougars will attack the deer instead. Or maybe we'd have to walk along side elepahnts to be effective. Yeah, that's i - put lots of elephants in our back yards! Don't big cats stay away from them? Is there anything like a deer whistle for cars that would be like a cougar repellant for people? I guess there's no natural preditor for cougars so there's nothing like wearing fox urine purfume that would help in that respect. I know, not too practical but had those thoughts.
I think this kind of problem has been an issue for Tigers in India. Although they have poachers bringing down tigers that is more of concern for natural conservation, there's also the problem of tigers comming in contact with humans more often. They have tried recently to link up natural reserves areas so the tigers can roam. The closeness of human populations to big cat habitats is increasing so all of this is going to increase. Are these big cat issues another signal that humans as a population are out of control? Maybe that's the spiritual message. But also it points out how humans have gotten out of the survival of the fittest evolution in the physical world. It's not a level playing field since we can create tools and weapons against nature. Nature is going to balance us out somehow, eventually, or we will continue to conquer and be the only animals left.
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