Through Lions Eyes with Phil Johnston - a podcast by Eli Weiss

Cougar biologist and professional tracker, Phil Johnston joins us today with a glimpse into the world as seen through the eyes of Cougar. From learning the ways they communicate their gender, their needs, their territory in signaling other lions- for mating opportunities to telling a young male to keep on moving. Phil’s expertise teaches us to understand what lions are doing and why and where, that we can co-exist without the fear and thus reduce and prevent human-livestock-lion conflicts. The cougar is a shy cat, evolved over millennia more as a mesocarnivore than seeing itself as an apex predator, thus they are specialists at blending into the landscape, and living silently amongst their prey, and us. As we continue to encroach into cougar’s habitat with our developments and lush landscapes that invite deer in, it is up to us to educate ourselves to be aware that we are living in the lion’s living room, to co-exist rather than kill them when they do what they are supposed to do.

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