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Keep an eye out for ferocious felines

Keep an eye out for ferocious felines
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young axis deer was killed on Poplar last week.  From the distance and depth of the puncture wounds on the head and the amount of the hindquarter that was eaten, some surmise it was killed by a mountain lion.

Jonah Evans, Texas Parks & Wildlife Mammologist, took a look at a photo.

“This kill does not have any of the standard characteristics that would lead me to consider it to be from a mountain lion.

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