Tell me about this mountain lion

[ThunderJack49]

I was out checking game cameras tonight and found this. I don't know much about cats, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what they see. Age/gender/ maturity. Thanks.

 

[grainhog]

Overall body size, shoulder blade definition, mass in hind quarter, and black tip definitely suggest adulthood to me, and my suspicion is this is an older tom. But avatar notwithstanding I don't really know a great deal about them. Such cool creatures.

 

[Firestone]

Super tough to come up with any accurate conclusion from just that one pic, other then its an adult lion. Pretty cool though

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Yup, looks like a big male. All I know is they sure are attracted to my turkey set-ups/calling. ruined a few hunts for me.

 

[Stalker69]

It looks as though he may not be doing so well. One is he is out in the day light, when I enlarge the picture it looks as though he has mange, or worse, I see alot of bumps on it, ( could be because of the mange)and hair loss. Either that or the photo is very misleading.

 

[ThunderJack49]

I think this cat has also been in this area for most of the year. I have pictures of elk and bear in this same meadow. Last picture on the camera right now is some elk sprinting through there. Thanks for your help guys.

 

[Mtns2hunt]

Nice looking adult Tom. Hard to tell if he is healthy from pic. Kinda looks like he is dappled by sunlight. Always exciting to see a lion.

 

[Stalker69]

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