A cougar made a rare appearance on a trail camera in the Whiteshell Provincial Park.

The cougar slowly walked forward and stopped briefly to sniff the camera. The image was captured on video on Oct. 28 at 4:50 a.m.

Danny Alexander, who posts videos of bears, wolves, deer and other animals roaming around the Whiteshell, east of Winnipeg, on his dannyboy_wildlife social media accounts, said he was thrilled to virtually “bag” a cougar.

“I was absolutely shocked when I saw it,” Alexander said on Friday.

“A cougar was high on my list of wildlife I wanted to capture. Of all the animals I’ve captured, I’ve never captured a moose, wolverine and cougar. The cougar was the last I thought I would get.”

Sean Johnson-Bice, formerly a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba, said spotting

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