Lion hunting in the California wilds

摘要

IT IS after dark, and I'm 2 metres away from a snarling mountain lion. We are in the mountains above Santa Cruz, California, across the road from a prison work camp. The lion - a young male - pauses in his pacing only to hiss at us. Filling the air is the powerful aroma of the half-eaten deer carcass that lured him into captivity,