We shared these stats with the I-95 listeners Monday morning (06/12/23) as we thought they were alarmingly high. We asked our friend Jen The Zookeeper Kotkin to help us make sense of the numbers and she said there was something very interesting about the metrics, remarking:
I was on the air doing the I-95 Morning Show when an app chat message appeared from our wildlife correspondent Jen The Zookeeper Kotkin. In anticipation of the warmer weather she wrote:
Recently, we were talking with our animal expert Jen the Zookeeper and the topic shifted from bears to mountain lions. This afforded me the opportunity to end an age-old internet debate about mountain lions in the Nutmeg State. Are there, or aren't there mountain lions stalking their prey in CT?
Reportedly, the woman was out walking her dog and was attacked by a bear likely protecting it's cubs. The victim declined medical attention when experts arrived but checked herself into the hospital later that day and was treated for minor wounds. Officials from DEEP say the bear was euthanized.
The more humans are out doing dumb things, the more we're likely to encounter, and get bit by snakes. If you do happen to get bit, don't get bit by either of CT's two venomous snakes. Here is what you need to know.