Author Topic: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted (Read 4233 times)

HighlandLofts · « **on:** April 18, 2024, 07:16:41 PM »

A friend had two sheep killed recently, he has seen a set of eyes at night with a light. He said they were blueish in color.
Could they have been a cougar?

freshgrease · « **Reply #1 on:** April 18, 2024, 08:37:57 PM »

In my extremely limited one time moment of panic while spotlighting one the eyes were green/yellow

Scruffy · « **Reply #2 on:** April 19, 2024, 02:43:17 AM »

yellow as far as I know

Bullkllr · « **Reply #3 on:** April 19, 2024, 09:16:01 AM »

I haven't seen enough to be at all certain with cougars, but I do know that multiple deer in a field at night can show different colors of eye shine from white to yellowish/greenish to reddish.

ASHQUACK · « **Reply #4 on:** April 19, 2024, 11:33:31 AM »

Greenish/blue

hunter399 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 19, 2024, 12:28:36 PM »

Probably depends what kind of light you shine at em.

Are you using an old school mag light.
Fancy LED light.

ASHQUACK · « **Reply #6 on:** April 19, 2024, 03:29:36 PM »

Shine your light at your or your neighbors cat. Same thing.

hunthard · « **Reply #7 on:** April 19, 2024, 05:20:10 PM »

Orange

birdshooter1189 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2024, 09:06:03 AM »

At 45:30 in this interview, the hiker said he saw multiple cougars at night while hiking the PCT and their eyes glowed red.

boneaddict · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2024, 09:36:03 AM »

The one I hit with a flashlight as It was following me into my elk hunting spot reflected yellow. Might be different with LED versus other wavelengths. My light was old school

Big6bull · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2024, 09:38:54 AM »

Cougars are generally yellow to red, deer and elk white/ blue ish. this can vary with any animal with quite a few factors. I’ve seen 3 or 4 cougars in the dark, they were all very orange eye color and I could verify they were indeed cougars.

UrbanTrapper · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2024, 10:39:24 AM »

African Lion's eyes are yellow in a spotlight so I'd imagine that Mountain Lion's are too.

pickardjw · « **Reply #12 on:** April 23, 2024, 02:15:34 PM »

Here’s a neat chart.

https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/jhnewsandguide.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/6e/a6e974d5-3639-5615-9da7-a8225e669731/54f6443b1be1d.pdf.pdf

NOCK NOCK · « **Reply #13 on:** April 23, 2024, 06:36:50 PM »

LMAO, that chart has Biggie and Vampires in it.

wadu1 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 23, 2024, 07:23:15 PM »

Quote from: NOCK NOCK on April 23, 2024, 06:36:50 PM

LMAO, that chart has Biggie and Vampires in it.

Better get @Dan-o on this right away, he's the Biggie expert.

Dan-o · « **Reply #15 on:** April 23, 2024, 08:36:41 PM »

Quote from: wadu1 on April 23, 2024, 07:23:15 PM

Quote from: NOCK NOCK on April 23, 2024, 06:36:50 PM
LMAO, that chart has Biggie and Vampires in it.
Better get @Dan-o on this right away, he's the Biggie expert.

WapitiTalk1 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2024, 09:20:41 PM »

If I’m that close to a big cat, I’m not memorizing his/her eye color….. it’s bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, click, click, sounds of reloading, bang….

MLHSN · « **Reply #17 on:** April 24, 2024, 07:35:16 AM »

Juvenile cats have blue eyes

TriggerMike · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2024, 02:42:58 PM »

It depends on the angle the light is hitting it.

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