[Why the wild cat attacked Bergere will remain unknown.]
People have become lulled into complacency by assumptions that aren’t true - one of which is the trope that wild animals are less dangerous than humans. We get few cougar attacks because humans don’t hang around cougar habitats much, so run into very few big cats, relative how many other humans we encounter each day. On a per encounter basis, large predator attacks on humans are probably orders of magnitude higher than human on human attacks.
Bewhahahah...They should call in animal social services to figure out the big mystery.
I remember two decades ago when juvenile cat was sitting in a tree in Palo Alto, CA at a local elementary school eyeing all the tasty snacks on the playground. Animal control services came in and decided they couldn't get the cat out of the tree safely, so they killed it.
You wouldn't believe all the bed-wetting, teeth-gnashing, and bawling that went on after that. "Why did you have to kill the beautiful cat?" It was unbelievable. These idiots would rather have the cat devour a kid on the playground?
Here's the story: Palo Alto visit fatal to cougar / Cop shoots cat near schools and residences, May 18, 2004. Almost went years ago to the day!