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  • Felis concolor. Jasper, Alta. [Alberta] April 18/43 [1943] Frank Wells reports:- that in December 1933-34 a cougar killed 4 bucks between mile 15 + mile 12 on the Athabasca road. One these had both the antlers flopping loose - he showed me the antlers - each with a small chunk of bone [word crossed out] frontal bone attached The next night the same cougar killed a doe - after a careful stalk it made 3 bounds + landed on the deer which took one jump + fell dead. (In all [of] them the back of the neck was bitten.) It then carried the doe with only an occassional [occasional] drag mark for 1 1/4 miles to a rock ledge. It did [word crossed out] ate only a small part of the 4th buck killed. In 1941 a lion killed 2 bucks within 50 yds [yards] of each other on the crest of the ridge east of Fiddler creek. Ate a little from each. This was the total kill in 48 hour (about) Trailed a large cougar up [illegible word] + saw where it had killed + eaten a porcupine. Skin almost intact with body removed through abdomen Saw two similar instances on the [two illegible words].
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