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Bird flu kills two cougars on peninsula
By Scott Doggett Bird flu killed two of the Olympic Peninsula’s several hundred mountain lions in recent weeks, and the nation’s foremost cougar expert told The Leader the weekend before Christmas that their fate could foreshadow death by virus for the …