Cougar Predation

[Balam]

"A couple of weeks ago I spent a week in the Tetons with my brother on our first wildlife photography trip. The first morning we saw this large male mountain lion sitting near his kill at the north end of the Elk Refuge. We sat and watched him for almost 8 hours before he sat up and slowly retreated into the woods. Thinking that was it for the day and about to pack up we saw a smaller lion (female?) bounding down from the woods towards the carcass! From talking to the locals we realized how lucky we were to see them, a seemingly very rare sight in the Tetons (they also taught us the correct pronunciation of Gros Ventre!). Please excuse the poor quality, it was getting dark, the pictures were shot on a 600mm with a doubler and they were still a pull on my D5. The lions were about 600 yards away."

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