In one of Aesop’s fables, a deer fleeing hunters takes refuge in a cave, only to fall prey to a lion into whose den he had stumbled. The moral: Sometimes safety is an illusion hiding greater dangers.

A mountain lion was caught on camera Thursday, attacking a deer on a resident's front porch in Hillsborough, a suburb of the San Francisco Bay area. Photo: Facebook/Peter Rauenbuehler Note ...

A Missouri deer hunter who shot and killed a mountain lion as it passed beneath his tree stand last month has been charged with a misdemeanor. According to KY3 News, Joseph Licklider of Desloge, Mo.

A farmer who owns two African lions has been given legal permission to cull deer for them to eat. Johnsons of Old Hurst in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, recently acquired one male and one female ...

According to court records, on November 16, Joseph Licklider of Desloge, Missouri, reached out to the Iron County Sheriff’s Office, saying he had shot a mountain lion while deer hunting and was ...

Mountain lions are protected predators that subsist on deer. The wild deer herd population in SLO County is down to the level of the 1930s when it was hard to find a deer, according to my father.

The lion's instinct is to chase and catch what they perceive as potential ... Do not feed wildlife! Elk and deer are the preferred prey for mountain lions. Feeding is unnecessary and can ...