Rare Mountain Lion Kittens Spotted on Trail Cameras Suggest the Big Cats May Be Reestablishing a Population in Oklahoma

Mountain lions were once a common sight in Oklahoma. But as settlers began arriving during the 19th century, they shot and killed many of the big cats. They also wiped out the predators’ main food source by hunting nearly all the state’s deer. By the early 1900s, mountain lions had largely disappeared from Oklahoma. Now, however, new evidence sugge...