Guess Which Animal Can Spook a Cougar? This Trail Cam Tells All

A trail cam set up in a neighborhood caught a cougar and an intimidating animal that scared the large feline away. What do you think it was? The post Guess Which Animal Can Spook a Cougar? This Trail Cam Tells All appeared first on Outdoors with Bear Grylls.

Feb 13, 2026 - 00:00
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Guess Which Animal Can Spook a Cougar? This Trail Cam Tells All

A trail camera set up in an Ojai, California neighborhood caught not one but two wild animals in the wee hours of February 9th. One animal was a cougar, and the other was intimidating enough to scare the large feline away. What do you think it was?

Watch the trail-cam footage here:

Did you guess correctly?

“I have several trail cameras set up on my street since we are a private dead end road,” wrote Susan Pellegrino Hornbeck in her post to the Facebook group Trail Camera Photos and Videos. “I get a lot of videos with wildlife but recently this Mountain Lion has been around. This is so funny because the skunk is chasing off this Mountain Lion.”

[RELATED: Caught on Trail Cam: Mountain Lion vs. Skunk—Who Wins?]

This cougar must have had a bad experience with a skunk in the past, because it clearly does not want to mess around with the skunk . . . and the skunk knows it.

Header stock image by JohnPitcher/Getty Images


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