A trail camera set up in an Ojai, California neighborhood caught not one but two wild animals in the wee hours of February 9th. One animal was a cougar, and the other was intimidating enough to scare the large feline away. What do you think it was?
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Watch the trail-cam footage here:
Did you guess correctly?
“I have several trail cameras set up on my street since we are a private dead end road,” wrote Susan Pellegrino Hornbeck in her post to the Facebook group Trail Camera Photos and Videos. “I get a lot of videos with wildlife but recently this Mountain Lion has been around. This is so funny because the skunk is chasing off this Mountain Lion.”
[RELATED: Caught on Trail Cam: Mountain Lion vs. Skunk—Who Wins?]
This cougar must have had a bad experience with a skunk in the past, because it clearly does not want to mess around with the skunk . . . and the skunk knows it.
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