/Texans expressed support for a compensation program to aid livestock owners that lose animals to mountain lions (mean score = 0.570 ± 0.07). For every person who strongly opposed such a program, four expressed strong support for livestock compensation initiatives (Table S6). There were no significant differences among responses made by our four ingroups of interest (hunter versus nonhunter, t = -1.489, p = 0.138; livestock versus no livestock, t = -0.756 p = 0.450; rural versus urban, t = -0.450, p = 0.653; and non-Hispanic versus Hispanic, t = 0.076, p = 0.94).