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A Beautiful Dermal Defense
Alyssa Gehman
Category: Vertebrates
A photo of a well-stretched mountain lion I captured using a camera trap during my study on the effect of forest harvest practices on the mammal community in west central BC. A few minutes later, we saw this cat again, this time chasing a playmate