We knew where it was because of its radio collar, and we treed it using hounds. We tranquilized it, and it stayed up in the tree, so our tree climber went up, put a rope around him and lowered him.
We feel we have an adequate deer population to support the panthers that are there now. But we are trying to determine if we're at the carrying capacity in Big Cypress.
When we've to take a wild panther out of the wild because it was injured, they've really fought being caged and break their teeth trying to bite at the chain link. We want to make sure we put this one someplace that's not going to happen.
It's sort of a sad way for him to end a successful career in Big Cypress.
