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Puma, cougar, el leon.  Whatever you choose to call it, the mountain lion is at the top of the food chain in the Rocky Mountains.  At a neighborhood party, Mary learned that the woman living four houses away, downhill, discovered a mountain lion and two cubs living under her juniper tree two years ago.  Also, a mountain lion recently left four fresh-killed deer carcasses in the yard of a house to the west of our new home.  And, last Tuesday, our stucco crew spotted a mountain lion on the ridge above our new home.  While we are not anxious to meet it, we call the mountain lion, “neighbor.”