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Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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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?
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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In my extremely limited one time moment of panic while spotlighting one the eyes were green/yellow
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yellow as far as I know
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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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.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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Greenish/blue
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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Probably depends what kind of light you shine at em.
Are you using an old school mag light.
Fancy LED light.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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Shine your light at your or your neighbors cat. Same thing.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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Orange
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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At 45:30 in this interview, the hiker said he saw multiple cougars at night while hiking the PCT and their eyes glowed red.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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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
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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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.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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African Lion's eyes are yellow in a spotlight so I'd imagine that Mountain Lion's are too.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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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
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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LMAO, that chart has Biggie and Vampires in it.
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Re: Color of cougar eyes when spot lighted
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Quote from: NOCK NOCK on April 23, 2024, 06:36:50 PM
LMAO, that chart has Biggie and Vampires in it.
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