AR-News: (US CA) Humans, mountain lions coexist in Cuyamaca, study says

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By Michael Stetz 
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER 
January 20, 2004 
Consider the length of a football field. When you're hiking in parkland, 
that's how close a mountain lion could be. 
We live and play closer to them than scientists had believed. 
The predators bed down during the day in thick vegetation not far from trails 
where people bike, ride horses or hike, according to researchers at the 
University of California Davis Wildlife Health Center, whose study of mountain 
lions in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is being released today. 
As night falls, the lions move closer to the trails. 
Contact is rare, and it is unlikely that people will see them. The big cats 
wait until it's nearly dusk to begin making their way to the place they have 
stashed a kill or to find new prey. While we sleep, the animals are most active, 
and they move about on the same trails and fire roads that we do. 



full story:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040120-9999_1m20lions.html



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but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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