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Originally Posted by RSS 
Speaking of big predators ... early this morning a mountain lion was killed at Shattuck & Cedar ... right in Berkeley.
Lions do seem to be popping up all over the place, don't they? The wife of a pal of mine who lives near Lake Elsinore saw one walking up their driveway not long ago. I offered him a rifle, but he declined. Some guys just don't cotton to guns, I guess. There was an excellent book The Beast in the Garden about how mountain lions overran Boulder, Colorado about 20 years ago.
Rocky is or was a very famous performing bear. Most trainers say that bears are far more dangerous to work with than the big cats--far more inscrutable.
I knew a young woman--her family were old family friends--who professionally trained wild animals. She owned (and may still own, for all I know) the tiger used in the 1990s version of The Jungle Book. She also had a leopard. She was once almost killed by a jaguar that she had raised from a cub. Jaguars are by far the most dangerous of the big cats in captivity although fatal attacks by jaguars on humans in the wild are very rare.
