Ada Palmer on Nostr: Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On ...

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. A cougar eats about 48 deer a year, nowhere near enough to account for it, so researchers have concluded that the deer are avoiding the places cats hunt. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/cougars-cut-deadly-vehicle-deer-collisions-in-the-u-s-by-up-to-76-study-shows/
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