This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. After noticing the big cat, he began to back away, but the cougar began stalking him. In Colorado, where their population is strong, mountain lions have injured 16 people and killed three since 1990.Ĭopyright © The Associated Press. The animals have killed fewer than 20 people in North America in more than 100 years. Mountain lions rarely attack because they tend to avoid people.
"He did this just out of sheer will and defense of himself," Ferrell said. They also advise trying to get back up on your feet if knocked over, look as big as possible and use anything handy as a weapon, such as a backpack or keys.īut the man who was attacked did not have any gear to help him. The lion was less than a year old and tested negative for rabies.įerrell said the runner did exactly what experts recommend in a rare encounter with a mountain lion - fight back as hard as possible. The man told investigators he choked the lion, and an examination of the animal confirmed that, said Rebecca Ferrell, a spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
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The animal bit the man's face and wrist before he was able to break free and kill the lion.Īuthorities are not identifying the man and say he needs time to decompress and decide if he will speak out. The agency said the runner's movement apparently triggered the young lion's hunting instincts. Unlike the mountain lion, wild bears were more aggressive and were in a position to hurt the dogs. However, in the latest episode (July 23), things changed a bit for Jake when he found out that the dogs were chasing a wild bear. If you haven’t seen the viral mountain lion video yet of a real-life cougar attempting to chase a Utah man away from its young, then you don. Luckily for Jake, he has his pack of dogs who are trained to spot a mountain lion and help take them out.
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The man was hospitalized with serious injuries and was expected to make a full recovery. A Different Kind of Cougar Stalks Man for 90 Seconds. That's when the mountain lion attacked, according to an account from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. The unidentified man was running alone at Horsetooth Mountain Open Space near Fort Collins on Monday when he heard a noise and turned back.
Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.ĭENVER (AP) - A mountain lion lunged at a runner on a Colorado trail and bit his face before the man fought back and choked the animal to death, wildlife officials said Tuesday. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. These accidental comics mimicked Burgess’ language to a tee and had fun with a viral situation made more viral by our thirst for animal interactions.This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. But none of them comes close to the witty parody, above, showing a different kind of cougar stalking a man for 90 seconds. The animal was simply telling him to get the f*** away from its young kittens. The whole thing was silly, starting with a “stalking for six minutes” headline that got animal lovers fired up as experts pointed out the lion wasn’t really stalking Burgess at all – he never would have seen an attack coming. The video went uber-global, garnering the accidental videographer, Kyle Burgess, some 25,000 followers on Instagram almost instantly while people viewed his video on YouTube more than five million times.
If you haven’t seen the viral mountain lion video yet of a real-life cougar attempting to chase a Utah man away from its young, then you don’t use social media (which might be a good thing).
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