![]() ![]() It was one of the most spectacular journeys by an animal ever recorded. He forded all the major rivers of the East, navigated highways and an international boundary. In all he probably traveled 2,000 to 5,000 miles, enough to cross the country twice. He disappeared for a couple months, then shows up almost two years later, 30 miles from Manhattan, in Greenwich, Connecticut. Over time he showed up in the Twin Cities of Minnesota and in Wisconsin. But instead of going west, as most lions in that part of the country do, he headed east into the Great Plains. As most young males do, he set off in search of a mate. At that time he was probably about one and a half years old, a young male just coming into adulthood. In an interview with National Geographic, Stolzenburg described the cougar's march:Īs far as we know, he started out from the Black Hills of South Dakota sometime in the late summer of 2009. They inspired William Stolzenburg to write Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk across America. So the extent of his travels is knowable. The wild cougar was wearing a radio tracker and there were several witnesses of his journey. ![]() But probably not as much as one particular cougar which undertook an incredible journey from western South Dakota to Connecticut in a long search to find a mate. For others, it involves a tremendous amount of hard work. For some guys, finding a girlfriend is as easy as existing. ![]()
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