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...sought-after prey of collectors and taxmen alike also bought the luckless Steve Trachsel membership in an equally exclusive fraternity--the college of Tracy Stallard and Tom Zachary, fellow victims of the pursuit of baseball immortality...
Ultimately MIT's fraternities may prove a difficult prey for the administration to snare...
...double the number in 1972. The population, once threatened by bounty hunters, is protected on the West Coast by state laws that ban the sport hunting of cougars or forbid the use of dogs to do so. And just as cougars began proliferating again, they were presented with alternative prey, such as pets and domesticated animals brought in by the growing human settlements...
...what can be done to get out of the way of the lions? Unlike bears, lions do not attack simply because their young are threatened. Lions hunt, skulking around their prey unnoticed before pouncing. Females and males are equally predatory. Yosemite wildlife-control officer Kate McCurdy recalls a Yosemite lion who sat near tents in 1994, intently watching shadows cast by people partying inside. Cougars tend to pick solitary prey; thus the lone jogger and the occasional bird watcher are in greater danger. But when lions do decide to target a group, they go after the smaller elements...
Steve Torres, an Arizona naturalist and the author of the book Mountain Lion Alert, has formulated some advice. Do not run from a lion--they recognize prey by flight. Yell and scream instead. Eye contact, too, establishes a threat to the cougar, or you may wave it away. Raise your arms to make yourself seem bigger than you actually are. If in a group, band together and pick up the children. If you are with pets, forget about them. Defend your children. And if the lion attacks, fight back, brandishing a threatening object--knife, branch, stick...