Cougar found passed in Mar ‘not partial of a proprietor cougar population’ says MNRF

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry says a cougar found passed northwest of Thunder Bay on March 25, 2017 was not partial of a proprietor Ontario population.

The ministry’s comparison media family officer, Jolanta Kowalski, said tissue from a animal found partially solidified along a Boreal Road was sent for DNA contrast to a United States Research Station in Montana this past spring.

She pronounced a hire combined a genetic profile, or “DNA fingerprint,” identical to a routine used to brand people in tellurian forensics/paternity cases.

“They compared a genetic form of a cougar to a database of cougar samples from South and North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Oregon and Florida,” she said. “They dynamic with 95 per cent luck that a cougar is many closely associated to people from a segment of a Black Hills of Wyoming, and South Dakota and northwest Nebraska.”

“The animal is not partial of a proprietor cougar race in northern Ontario.”

Kowalski pronounced a Montana DNA researchers remarkable that people should not “read too much” into a results, as a fact that a animal had genetic markers from South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraka doesn’t meant it indeed came from there.

“They were really discreet about pin-pointing a specific area,” she said.

Kowalski pronounced a method is really wakeful since so many people wanted to know where a cougar competence have come from, and either it was indeed a furious Ontario cat.

“I consider there was a lot of seductiveness since it is so singular to indeed come on a cougar carcass,” she said. “They are involved though they are also rarely elusive. For us to finish adult carrying a carcass, found on a side of a road, is rare and an glorious event to do some study and to also try and determine — if we could — where it came from.”

Cougars are deliberate an involved class in Ontario.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-cougar-results-1.4381070?cmp=rss