This is the only article that I saw that described who these people were. Before I knew this I thought it was odd that a healthy young man could get killed that easily by a cougar. I still don’t understand...were there any actual male humans in this attack?
“I thought it was odd that a healthy young man could get killed that easily by a cougar”
I don’t know about that, I think the animal had the advantage much of the time, absent the person having a weapon.
There was a young guy killed by a bear here in NJ last year, or maybe the year before. He was hiking in some park (not the wilderness in any way), with a group, in the day time, but he still ended up d.e.a.d.
Predators tend to single out the sick and weak.
“...I thought it was odd that a healthy young man could get killed that easily by a cougar.”
My neighbor said he wanted to show me something. We went into his empty open garage and there on the floor was a cat and 4 or 5 small kittens playing as kittens do. They were running around between his feet even. He explained the cat had them under his trailer and thought they were old enough to show them the world.
How “cute” they were! He wanted to show me one close up and was going to pick one up, yet he was very apprehensive and almost scared to do so. Finally he saw his opportunity and grabbed one.
All hell broke loose! This cute adorable little kitten went bazerko. SCREAMING like a banshee. Frantically clawing at the air with all four feet.
If this little kitten could have gotten to any part of my friend, it would have torn him to shreds in seconds.
He carefully put it down and it went back to playing with it’s siblings.
If I hadn’t seen it myself, I would never have believed it. The kittens were feral, wild, and I mean WILD!
I doubt very much that most humans could kill a full grown, healthy mountain lion/cougar.
animals sense weak and diseased targets as an easier opportunity...