Eli Schaefer from Houghton still can’t believe he was lucky enough to capture video of a cougar killing a deer on one of his trail cameras near Toivola in Houghton County on the afternoon of December 30, 2023.
The dramatic video shows a large male mountain lion after it pounced on and overpowers what appears to be a young antlerless deer and has the whitetail on the ground. The lion quickly grabs the deer by the throat to suffocate it. Based on the short snout on the deer’s head, it’s probably a
