Mountain lions are eating California wild donkeys. Why scientists say this a good thing
LOS ANGELES — An apex predator has been quietly hunting interlopers in Death Valley, and for the first time, the deadly encounter has been captured on camera. A mountain lion can be seen via nighttime images pouncing onto the back of an in-stride wild donkey. The cougar easily wins the fight: A photograph taken seven minutes later shows it standing over the dead donkey, eyes glimmering as it ...
LOS ANGELES — An apex predator has been quietly hunting interlopers in Death Valley, and for the first time, the deadly encounter has been captured on camera.
A mountain lion can be seen via nighttime images pouncing onto the back of an in-stride wild donkey.
The cougar easily wins the fight: A photograph taken seven minutes later shows it standing over the dead donkey, eyes glimmering as it stares into a wildlife camera.
"It's extremely rare to get a predation on camera," said Erick Lundgren, the biologist who captured the
