[NatureNS] Purported SW NS Eastern Cougar Photo

Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 12:07:34 -0400 (AST)
From: Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>
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   &#160;&#160; We desperately need some hard evidence&#160;for the presenc=
e of Eastern Cougar in Nova Scotia. There continue to be many&#160;sighting=
s, of various degrees of reliability, but&#160;very little if any hard &#16=
0;DNA evidence (carcasses, hair, scats). Trail cam photos are often hoaxes,=
 as there is&#160;usually no way to tell where they were taken. No GPS coor=
dinates. And tracks? I am not sure how many people out there can reliably d=
istinguish cougar tracks from lynx tracks.
   <br/>&#160; Logically, one cannot disprove that a material object doesn&=
#39;t exist. The Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, the&#160;Yeti. BTW, I saw a =
unicorn a few years ago. In Nova Scotia. It was on my street in Halifax, on=
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   &#160; Dusan Soudek
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   On November 16, 2014 at 11:29 AM David Patriquin &#60;davidgpatriquin@ya=
hoo.ca&#62; wrote:
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     <span></span>Otherwise known as a Type II error or a false negative!
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style=3D"font-weight: bold;">From:</span></strong> John and Nhung &#60;nhun=
gjohn@eastlink.ca&#62;<br/><strong><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">To:</=
span></strong> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <br/><strong><span style=3D"font-wei=
ght: bold;">Sent:</span></strong> Sunday, November 16, 2014 10:53 AM<br/><s=
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           <span style=3D"font-size: 11pt;">I have probably said this befor=
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           <span style=3D"font-size: 11pt;">hen Donald Rumseld said =E2=80=
=9CThe absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,=E2=80=9D he as logic=
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           <span style=3D"font-size: 11pt;">(Hence the absence of proof of =
the existence of the Eastern Cougar in NS does not disprove their existence=
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           <span style=3D"font-size: 11pt;">Ain=E2=80=99t logic fun?</span>
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              <span style=3D"font-size: 10pt;"> naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.=
ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Pau=
l Ruggles<br clear=3D"none"/><strong>Sent:</strong> November-16-14 10:28 AM=
<br clear=3D"none"/><strong>To:</strong> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br clear=
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            I know there is a lot of disbelief about cougars in NS, but My =
wife and I saw one while driving up to Cape Breton in the late 1960&#39;s. =
I was quite familiar with these critters from several sightings on Vancouve=
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