Instead, he has taken on the far more complex task of examining the human-wildlife conflict in 21st-century America through the story of a single animal.
In “Heart of a Lion,” William Stolzenburg could have presented a straightforward narrative about the legendary animal sometimes called the cat of many names - cougar, puma, catamount and mountain lion being just a few - and its surprising survival against tremendous odds. Subsequent research revealed that the young male had come from the Black Hills in western South Dakota and that his 2,000-mile journey was the longest ever recorded of a member of Puma concolor, a subfamily of the so-called “small” wildcats that at one time were found throughout North and South America. Eighteen months later, the same tawny cougar would be struck and killed by an SUV on a Connecticut parkway just north of New York City. It showed a mountain lion padding through a wooded area of Champlin on the night of Dec. 9, 2009, online edition of the Star Tribune featured a grainy video shot by a dashboard camera in Sgt.
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