The reported mountain lion sighting in the Lehigh Valley was something much more common.
A mountain lion is seen at the Oregon Zoo in February 2021. Also known as cougars, pumas, panthers and other names, they are not known to exist in Pennsylvania. A reported sighting over the weekend at Lower Macungie Township turned out to be something much more common., when state police were called to apartments near the Hamilton Crossings shopping center for a reported sighting. The area’s highways and suburban neighborhoods would be an unusual place for an animal wary of humans to pop up.
And you’re unlikely to ever see one anywhere in this part of the country. Norman, in a 2021 Penn State Extension article with the unambiguous headline “,” reported the animals were officially declared extinct east of the Mississippi in the 1930s, save a small population in Florida. While it is technically possible that a mountain lion may travel out this way, slim as those chances may be, the most realistic reason one could just pop up someplace like Lower Macungie would be if it escaped from a private collection, Norman said. Keller, with the game commission, said Pennsylvania does issue permits for such collections, but there are fewer and fewer each year.
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