Archive: There's a cougar in my backyard

The Wild with Chris Morgan

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Science, Nature

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A cougar biologist with Washington state once received a complaint. An old lady called him up and said, “There’s a cougar in my backyard.” And the biologist responded, “Well, that’s funny because I got a call this morning from a cougar. He told me there’s an old lady in his front yard!”

Our backyards are getting bigger. And the cougar’s front yard is getting smaller. This episode, we search out some of these big cats to understand the impact cougars and humans have on each other.

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0:00.0	Support comes from climate one.
0:02.0	The world is living through a climate emergency.
0:05.0	Addressing this crisis begins by talking about it.
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0:12.0	offer empowering conversations.
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0:17.6	When I was a kid in the 90s, I remember how my family used to squeegee a gooey mess of splattered bugs off the windshield every road trip.
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0:39.1	Over the next season of The Wild, we're going to play some of our favorite episodes from our archives. This one's
0:45.0	extra special to me. It's about Cougars. And it was our very first episode. It came out in the
0:51.0	spring of 2019.
0:53.0	Some of the information might have changed.
0:55.0	We'll have any updates at the end.
0:57.0	I hope you enjoy the episode.
0:59.0	Trevor and Audrey Diddell live in Snoqualmie, Washington, about 25 miles east of Seattle.
1:05.0	Twenty years ago, Snoqualmie had about 1,600 residents.
1:09.0	Today, there are over 13,000 people.
1:13.3	Single family homes and tree-lined cul-dysacks now
1:16.2	spread across the valley.
1:20.6	The Snoqual simple right turn off that major road sits the home of the Dadells.
1:35.2	We pull into the cul-de-sac.
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