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• 4 weeks

  Story: "Hunter"

  This is a short story I thought I'd write up. Feedback is appreciated!

  Hunter

  Gabriel Smedley

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• 9 weeks

  Hunting the Mountain Lion: Not all it Seems

  The big cats are supreme hunters. Their keen senses allow them to track prey and their paws let them move through the land without making a single sound, one could pass by a bobcat and they wouldn't even know it. Despite this, they face their own set of challenges. In Asia, tigers are poached for their fur and bones and lions in Africa also have to put up with poaching for their bones and paws. All of them get into conflict with local people over attacks and livestock and on people. In North

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• 11 weeks

  Black Bear vs Wild Hog

  

  Now, this is something you don't see every day. Especially since 95% of a black bear's diet consists of plant matter. Now that the bears are emerging from hibernation they're hungry and will eat whatever's available to them, and in this case, a wild hog is this bear's choice.

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• 13 weeks

  How to Control The Prey

  The relationship between predator and prey is one of the most fascinating aspects of nature. this relationship is an arms race, with the predators getting better at catching and killing the prey, and the prey getting better at escaping and avoid the predators. Through their act of hunting prey, the predators control the populations of the prey animals which keeps them from becoming overpopulated and eating too many plants. With predation, naturally, you get a yearly reduction in the population

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• 13 weeks

  Cave Lions...What The?

  Imagine if you could enter the mammoth's realm. A place of freezing temperatures and wide-open spaces. Massive herds of bison, camels, and horses grazing on the oceans of grass. Now imagine something in the grass, looking for weakness, what would appear to be a lion...but not quite. Meet the Cave Lion "Panthera spalaea". Cave Lions were a species of big cat ranging from Western Europe all the way to Canada that, contrary to what the name would suggest, did not live in caves nor was it actually

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