Iowa is the way of the Cougar
 

For a long time, the fiercest predator worrying farm livestock east of the Missouri River was a coyote or maybe a hunter who couldn't tell a white-faced cow from a whitetail deer.

Now it's the cougars.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/art...dc006fe82e.txt

We heard coyotes this weekend when we were back home visiting my parents. And a really loud owl.

No cougars, though.