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Cougar Sighting at Maryland

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The University of Maryland sent a campus alert today warning students of a "possible cougar" on the College Park campus, the Washington City Paper reports. The cougar (the nonhuman type) has been seen at least twice and was described as "light tan and tawny brown, about 4 feet long with a 4 foot tail, and weighing about 50 pounds."

Cougars are not indigenous to the state (or anywhere so far east of the Rockies, really), leading to some confusion among Maryland public-safety officers. "We have never dealt with this before," said a DPS captain. "We will get the occasional report of a coyote on campus, which usually will end up just being a fox."

So where did it come from? "Your guess is as good as mine," officials told the paper.

Tags:: University of Maryland,; animals

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There are cougars in RI. My father saw one across the road in front of him early in the morning @ Quonset Point. I know of another man in Saunderstown who's neighbor saw one kill a deer in their yard. They are here. Look at how many home movies of mountain lions in Connecticut there are on youtube.com.

Travis of RI 7:30PM January 13, 2010