The Beast in the Garden

Living on Earth

In the late 1980s the cougar population near Boulder, Colorado grew so large and so accustomed to people that the wild animals started hanging out in neighborhoods and occasionally attacking pets.
Eventually, and some would say inevitably, mountain lions went after people. Host Steve Curwood talks with former NPR science reporter David Baron about his new book “The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature.”

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