The most dangerous creatures lurking in Pa.’s woods and some tips for handling encounters
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Photo from 2005 of a cougar at the now-defunct Wildcat Haven in Sherwood, Oregon. (Oregonian archive photo) Cougars are extirpated in Pennsylvania.
Photo courtesy Cheryl Tuller, executive director of Wildcat Haven
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Are dangerous creatures lurking outside your tent flap or in the woods beyond your backyard if you live in Pennsylvania? Although the chances of being attacked by an animal are slim (and even slimmer that you could die from such an attack), there are indeed animals capable of wreaking havoc on humans. We run through the list from mammals to reptiles to insects as the camping season gets underway.