While baseball goes for Muppet-like characters, the NBA favors tough animals--bulls, mountain lions, coyotes, gorillas--acting goofy.

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By 2000 the couple was about to move into the black when mountain lions killed six of their goats.

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In 1997 he hiked through Idaho with University of Chicago researchers, helping to capture, anesthetize, measure and radio-collar mountain lions.

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Herbivores such as deer should be mounted with their mouths closed, whereas carnivores a group that includes bears, wolves and mountain lions should be preserved with mouths open.

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While many Omaha Nighthawks players have pledged their allegiance to the team, some members of the Sacramento Mountain Lions already packed their bags and left the facilities.

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Authorities, who did not have access to tranquilizer guns, killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight female lions, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers.

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Authorities, who did not have access to tranquilizer guns, killed two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight female lions, one baboon, three mountain lions and 18 Bengal tigers.

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Businessman Ray Coyle, owner of Largo foods, the company behind Tayto in the Republic has turned 55 acres of farmland into an American-themed park, which will include an Indian village, adventure playgrounds and exotic animals from buffalo to cougars and mountain lions.

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Elephants, giraffes and even lions wander around the eastern slopes of the mountain, and it is essential to be accompanied by an armed guide, although encounters with these animals are rare.

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