http://content.usatoday.com/communit...south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:34:36 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:


http://content.usatoday.com/communit...south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


He wanted some "Yankee fritters" :-/

On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
....

How do DNA tests show it got there by walking as opposed to somebody
dumped it....(just saying it doesn't necessarily follow... )

--

Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Hi,
Wonder why they killed it?

On 7/29/2011 1:12 PM, Tony Hwang wrote:


Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1


DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Hi,
Wonder why they killed it?

Duh.

On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?

Don

On 7/29/2011 12:25 PM, IGot2P wrote:
....

Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?
....

How does a human DNA test determine kin relationships???

--

In article , dpb wrote:

On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...7/mountain-lio
n-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
...

How do DNA tests show it got there by walking as opposed to somebody
dumped it....(just saying it doesn't necessarily follow... )

--

They obviously did the DNA tests on the dirt in its paws

"IGot2P" wrote in message
...

Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?

Expert animal trackers can recognize cougar poop when they see
it, and DNA analysts can (sometimes) identify the individual source. So
many US states nowadays want to say they have cougars that wildlife
officers collect samples of any likely poop they come across:
and the DNA laboratories do the rest, viz. track one individual
who left deposits in several states.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

On 2011-07-29, Don Phillipson wrote:

Expert animal trackers can recognize cougar poop when they see
it, and DNA analysts can (sometimes) identify the individual source. So
many US states nowadays want to say they have cougars that wildlife
officers collect samples of any likely poop they come across:
and the DNA laboratories do the rest, viz. track one individual
who left deposits in several states.

An example of what how he doody show....

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:25:31 -0500, IGot2P wrote:

Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?

The same way they do for canines (Basenji), that came from Africa.

http://happydogdna.com/Basenji.html

dpb wrote:
On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the
Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
...

How do DNA tests show it got there by walking as opposed to somebody
dumped it....(just saying it doesn't necessarily follow... )

They sample droppings in Wisconsin and Minnesota that had come from the same
animal.

IGot2P wrote:
On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the
Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?


I am amased by how many people respond without reading the article.

On 7/29/2011 1:47 PM, Bob F wrote:
....

They sample[d] droppings in Wisconsin and Minnesota that had come from the same
animal.

For real? Kewl, if so...

(If that information is in the article, unfortunately, that loaded so
slowly that w/ my dialup connection I gave it up so haven't seen it...)

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Tony Hwang wrote:
Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the
Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Hi,
Wonder why they killed it?

It's the Connecticut way.

"Bob F" wrote in message
...
IGot2P wrote:
On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the
Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?


I am amazed by how many people respond without reading the article.

Me too. All info was there. WW

On 7/29/2011 4:18 PM, WW wrote:
....

I am amazed by how many people respond without reading the article.

Me too. All info was there. WW


Well, after waiting several minutes and it still hadn't loaded, I gave
up...(as noted earlier, I'm limited to dialup owing to location,
location, location...)

--

"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 7/29/2011 4:18 PM, WW wrote:
...

I am amazed by how many people respond without reading the article.

Me too. All info was there. WW


Well, after waiting several minutes and it still hadn't loaded, I gave
up...(as noted earlier, I'm limited to dialup owing to location,
location, location...)

Hey, I'm on dialup. Loaded fast enough for me! (-: What are you running
at? 2400BPS?

--
Bobby G.

"Oren" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:25:31 -0500, IGot2P wrote:

Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?

The same way they do for canines (Basenji), that came from Africa.

http://happydogdna.com/Basenji.html

http://dogblog.dogster.com/2011/06/3...g-on-the-rise/

"a company called PooPrints on getting cheek swabs from dogs and comparing
marble-sized bits of orphaned poop to the samples on file. It's not a cheap
process, but the costs in cases like this are usually passed on to the
residents. Guilty poopetrators can get big fines, and may be threatened with
eviction or dog confiscation if they don't pay the fine."

--
Bobby G.

"dpb" wrote in message ...
On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
...

How do DNA tests show it got there by walking as opposed to somebody
dumped it....(just saying it doesn't necessarily follow... )

I recall a NOVA episode about an male Indian tiger traveling an enormous
distance to find a mate (but finding death as well as this cougar). Still,
I agree with you. I can't see how, without a radio collar, they can prove
that this cat didn't crawl into an open boxcar or was somehow otherwise
transported that distance by humans or mechanisms unknown.

--
Bobby G.

"Robert Green" wrote in
:

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...011/07/mountai
n-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

That mountain lion is a lot better looking than that woman even if it is
dead.

Tony Hwang wrote the following:


Robert Green wrote:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1


DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.

The epic journey was the longest ever recorded for a mountain lion.


Hi,
Wonder why they killed it?

They didn't. It got hit by a car.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
In the original Orange County. Est. 1683
To email, remove the double zeroes after @

That helps explain the 14 trillion USA national debt, they
are spending how much on cougar poop? I thought the debt was
mostly payoffs to Democrats who helped that foreign born
marxist get into the Black House. Know I'm sayin, home? You
slide me some votes, I be in de blak house crib for sho!

--
Christopher A. Young
Learn more about Jesus
www.lds.org
..


"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
...

Expert animal trackers can recognize cougar poop when they
see
it, and DNA analysts can (sometimes) identify the individual
source. So
many US states nowadays want to say they have cougars that
wildlife
officers collect samples of any likely poop they come
across:
and the DNA laboratories do the rest, viz. track one
individual
who left deposits in several states.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

That helps explain the 14 trillion USA national debt, they
are spending how much on cougar poop? I thought the debt was
mostly payoffs to Democrats who helped that foreign born
marxist get into the Black House. Know I'm sayin, home? You
slide me some votes, I be in de blak house crib for sho!



Maybe you should learn more about Jesus, home boy. Your ignorant racism
is starting to seep out here and there.

Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"Stormin Mormon" wrote:

That helps explain the 14 trillion USA national debt, they
are spending how much on cougar poop? I thought the debt was
mostly payoffs to Democrats who helped that foreign born
marxist get into the Black House. Know I'm sayin, home? You
slide me some votes, I be in de blak house crib for sho!



Maybe you should learn more about Jesus, home boy. Your ignorant
racism is starting to seep out here and there.

Starting too?

His ignorance is running like a tap that needs a new washer (just to bring
this on topic for the group)

--
PV

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your
Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:10:23 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:


"Oren" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:25:31 -0500, IGot2P wrote:

Just curious, how did a DNA test determine that it came from SD?

The same way they do for canines (Basenji), that came from Africa.

http://happydogdna.com/Basenji.html

http://dogblog.dogster.com/2011/06/3...g-on-the-rise/

"a company called PooPrints on getting cheek swabs from dogs and comparing
marble-sized bits of orphaned poop to the samples on file. It's not a cheap
process, but the costs in cases like this are usually passed on to the
residents. Guilty poopetrators can get big fines, and may be threatened with
eviction or dog confiscation if they don't pay the fine."

I've seen this nonsense (read about it). Just a bunch of silly folks
needing something to do in the mean time.

.....
Reporter:

OT: Robert I need a front page of the Miami Herald. Circa 80-82/. It
landed in Washington on the Director's desk.

Just one page... Larry used a pic-axle handle and knocked the sweat
off a recalcitrant -- first contact, first at bat.

My contact at MH has passed. I need a clue to get that one page.

On 7/29/2011 4:53 PM, Robert Green wrote:
....

Hey, I'm on dialup. Loaded fast enough for me! (-: What are you running
at? 2400BPS?
....

Sometimes....

All depends on how noisy lines are at any given time. We're (very)
rural; they're not great at any time and they're doing some work at a
switching/junction point in town and depending on what's going on there
at any given time it may be as low as 6-8k negotiated but w/ the
correction/error rate effective may be that poor...good can sometimes
reach near 33.6 but rarely much over 28.8...

--

On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:21:38 -0500, dpb wrote:

On 7/29/2011 4:53 PM, Robert Green wrote:
...

Hey, I'm on dialup. Loaded fast enough for me! (-: What are you running
at? 2400BPS?
...

Sometimes....

All depends on how noisy lines are at any given time. We're (very)
rural; they're not great at any time and they're doing some work at a
switching/junction point in town and depending on what's going on there
at any given time it may be as low as 6-8k negotiated but w/ the
correction/error rate effective may be that poor...good can sometimes
reach near 33.6 but rarely much over 28.8...

Must be painful to do OS updates...

On 7/29/2011 5:13 PM, Robert Green wrote:
wrote in message ...
On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/07/mountain-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on a
Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from the Black
Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
...

How do DNA tests show it got there by walking as opposed to somebody
dumped it....(just saying it doesn't necessarily follow... )

I recall a NOVA episode about an male Indian tiger traveling an enormous
distance to find a mate (but finding death as well as this cougar). Still,
I agree with you. I can't see how, without a radio collar, they can prove
that this cat didn't crawl into an open boxcar or was somehow otherwise
transported that distance by humans or mechanisms unknown.

--
Bobby G.



It was a UFO,
"Hey Glerp, where did you get this creature?"
"Um, I know it came from this land mass"
"Hell, let's drop it off anywhere, as long as
it's the same area it should find its way home."
"Did you do the anal probe?"
"Yea but it wasn't too happy about it."
"Uh, OK, that place over there looks alright."
"Turn on the blinking lights and sound effects, let's land."

TDD

Noahbuddy wrote in news:4e54ba07$0$22688$c3e8da3
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The Daring Dufas wrote in
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On 7/29/2011 5:13 PM, Robert Green wrote:
wrote in message
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On 7/29/2011 10:34 AM, Robert Green wrote:



http://content.usatoday.com/communit...2011/07/mounta
in-lion-killed-in-conn-had-walked-from-south-dakota/1

DNA tests show that a 140-pound mountain lion killed last month on
a Connecticut highway had walked more than 1,500 miles east from
the Black Hills of South Dakota., state officials said today.
...

I heard the animal took Amtrack and a bus.

Don't be absurd, if it took Amtrack the lion would be still be stuck on a
bus from Cleveland after they decided it would be cheaper to stop the
train there.