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All we've got around these parts are feral house cats…..which surprisingly get pretty big and nasty…..fun to hunt/shoot when you wander across them here in NZ.
Quite resilient buggers too.
I'd love to fly up and hunt a Mountain Lion. The closest I've seen any big cat in the wild was in Africa when we had some time to follow up baboon/leopard tracks in soft soil.
After about a K of mixed baboon and leopard tracks it looked like an open air abattoir.
Casting out for sign a fair distance, as best we can tell(and with no trees within the cast), the only thing that left alive was the leopard.
From what I was told about leopard behaviour is they don't target fixate, they'll try and hit most/everything in a group quickly, then finish off the wounded one by one.
Earlier this year in Afghan I met up with a great South African fella who is working on an animal conservation project and had just gotten the first game camera snaps of a Persian Leopard seen in Afghan in apparently quite some time.
Pretty cool looking animal…..shame he couldn't communicate it locally out of legitimate fear of poachers who would hunt/trap/kill it without a second's thought.
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