My neighbor that I share a 1/2 mile fence line with called yesterday. In the last two years he has lost 3 heifers weighing about 700 pounds each.
On two of those occasions the single culprit was seen and fled by making a 6-8' vertical leap up a tree.
He said it was a cougar but since I have learned from my time on this site those don't exist in the Indiana wild, I assumed it to be a coyote.
It was quite large so I would assume it to be an eastern coy-wolf rather than a western coyote. My question is, has anyone done research on the vertical leaping ability of the coy-wolf?
But it could be a long tailed mono-colored bobcat that took a 700 pound animal out of a heard of 70+ animals.
You decide...
On two of those occasions the single culprit was seen and fled by making a 6-8' vertical leap up a tree.
He said it was a cougar but since I have learned from my time on this site those don't exist in the Indiana wild, I assumed it to be a coyote.
It was quite large so I would assume it to be an eastern coy-wolf rather than a western coyote. My question is, has anyone done research on the vertical leaping ability of the coy-wolf?
But it could be a long tailed mono-colored bobcat that took a 700 pound animal out of a heard of 70+ animals.
You decide...