What’s worse than spotting one mountain lion in your backyard? Spotting two mountain lions in your backyard! You certainly wouldn’t want to be alone when faced with these predators. If you are though, it’s important to understand that mountain lions will only attack humans if they feel threatened or cornered.
Try to make yourself look larger by raising your arms or holding a jacket above your head. Avoid crouching or bending over as this may make you look like prey. The last thing you want to do is turn your back on them or run away, as this may trigger their predatory instincts. Instead, slowly back away while keeping your eyes on the mountain lions.
Bear With a Mouthful
Bears in North America are known to hunt fish during the salmon spawning season. Plus, bears are known to be good fishers, as you can see in this photo. That looks like a decent fish and this bear must be excited to eat his lunch, he's certainly earned it.
Being a bear in the wild can be challenging and definitely unpredictable. But it must be great to live wild and free. While it's probably much harder to look for nourishment, it must also be satisfying when you do manage to catch something. There's nothing like enjoying a meal you've worked hard to get.
Deer Stack
Life in the animal kingdom can get tricky. For one thing, competing for a mate sometimes means awkward love triangles can occur. Take these three deer in this photo: it looks like neither of these two male deer would take no for an answer, and when they saw their opportunity, they took it.
We think one of the deer might need to take a step back and wait his turn. Generally speaking, it's usually the most dominant buck that mates with female deer during the mating season, while less dominant bucks may not have the opportunity to mate at all. But as we can see, the deer at the back did not like that idea.
Fighting Deer?
These two dear standing on their hind legs almost look like a pair of kangaroos about to knock each other out. We didn't really understand this so we did a little research into this strange behavior, we found that sometimes standing on their hind legs can be a defensive behavior for deer.
Deer may stand on their hind legs, although it's not as comfortable, to make themselves look larger and more intimidating. This can help to deter an opponent or predator and give them a chance to escape. This totally checks out, cause it sure doesn't look like a budding friendship.
Deer & Possum
This trail cam managed to capture a deer encountering a possum. They both just seem to be looking at each other, perhaps they're curious about what the other animal is and what they're doing in their territory. We would run if we were this possum because that deer is much bigger and could cause some serious damage.
Then again, possums are known for dropping to the ground, remaining completely still, and even sticking out their tongues when confronted by potential threats. We'll never know what either of these animals did, but we sure know we wouldn't want to face an animal of any kind when it's this dark.