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Local News | Rare photo shows 8 cougars on game trail | Seattle Times Newspaper<\/a> <\/p>\n

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COURTESY OF BRAD THOMAS<\/p>\n

One cougar snarls as eight cougars congregate on a rock cliff near Moses Coulee in Central Washington in this image captured Dec. 23 by a remote motion-sensor camera. <\/p>\n

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They don’t exactly hunt in packs, don’t travel in herds and aren’t typically thought of as communal beings.<\/p>\n

The image of the mountain lion as a stealthy, solitary beast is woven into the fabric of the American West.<\/p>\n

And yet there they were on a game trail in Eastern Washington \u00e2\u20ac\u201d eight creatures famous for being loners, all huddled together as if attending some big-cat block party.<\/p>\n

Brad Thomas captured the images a few days before Christmas on a trail camera, triggered by a motion sensor, set up on private land in Douglas County. He submitted a disc of photos to cougar experts with the state. After reviewing and discussing the images among themselves, the biologists declared the pictures extraordinary \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a rare glimpse of fellowship among the West’s common but elusive mountain lions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Local News | Rare photo shows 8 cougars on game trail | Seattle Times Newspaper By Craig Welch Seattle Times environment reporter COURTESY OF BRAD THOMAS One cougar snarls as eight cougars congregate on a rock cliff near Moses Coulee in Central Washington in this image captured Dec. 23 by a remote motion-sensor camera. SPECIAL … Continue reading Rare photo shows 8 cougars on game trail | Seattle Times Newspaper<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}