Edit: So what I’m gathering is that they’re not so dangerous that they will strike out of nowhere, and people need to be alert of their surroundings constantly. They almost always get seen if there is going to be an interaction, and the vast majority of the time just walk away. Is this correct?
Actual mountain lion, only once, despite growing up in a very rural area where they inhabit. It was laying across the road as I was leaving my parents’s house. As I got closer it stood up and calmly walked into the bosque.
I have had many more encounters with bobcats. Mostly involving my dogs chasing one up a tree, or finding one in a tree and barking at it.
TIL a new word. I’m just curious, do people commonly refer to it as ‘the bosque’ around there the same way we might say ‘the woods’?
There are no ‘woods’ along the shores of the Rio Grande, only bosque.
Si.