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What is it?
Puma concolor or the cougar is a large member of the feline family and an apex pre reader
of the Americas.
It’s a cat of many names that’s commonly known as the puma, panther, catamount or mountain
lion.
Its coat is tan or tawny and it has a round face and erect ears.
Mountain lions are slender and agile felines with bodies built for great leaping and flower
full short sprints.
They have large paws and proportionately the largest hind legs of all felines.
The North American mountain lion has a long and heavy tail which accounts for two thirds
of its body.
Aside from the North American cougar there are five other mountain lion subspecies all
of which are solely found in Latin America.
Even though it might resemble an average house cat, the mountain lion is roughly the size
of an adult human.
Males typically weigh between 115 and 220 pound and females are usually smaller, with
an average weight of 93 pounds.
The size of the mountain lion varies depending on the feline’s geographical range.
Number 4 Man rave his Wife from attracting Cougar
An unnamed 60-year-old woman was attracted by a mountain lion while she was gardening
in the back yard of her mountain cabin on the remote Flores Island, in Clayoquot Sound,
on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
The animal saw the woman in a crouched position and mistook her for bay.
It bounced on her and started to lite her on the head as she seemed in rain.
She would’ve been mole to breath if not for her husband who was nearby and heard her
seems, reacting quickly he grabbed a boar spear and repeatedly grabbed the cougar until
it loosened its grip and ran away.
It was later found bread by conservation officials around fifty feet from the cabin.
Conservation officer Sergeant Ben York told a media outlet that he believed it was the
first time in Canada and perhaps even in North America when someone stopped a mountain lion
attract by filling it with a spear.
The woman was airlifted to a hospital in Victoria.
Her school had been partially flashed by the animal and part of her scalp was missing but
doctors managed to stabilize her.
The locals praised the man as a hero as they believed the same animal had been responsible
for a series of other attracts.
Where is it located?
The mountain lion has the largest span of any wild animal in the Americas and may be
found from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and from the northern Yukon to the Southern
Andes in Chile.
Highly adaptable this is the reason for such a wide distribution.
It inhabits various environments from wooded forests and snowy mountains to arid lowlands,
swamps or coastal areas.
Mountain lions are usually solitary and territorial animals.
Only the mothers and her kittens live in small groups.
Mothers are fiercely detective of their young and have been known to light off substantially
larger animals such as Grizzly bears in order to pretend them.
Mountain lions are nocturnal and generalist predators meaning that they will eat any animal
they catch from insects to large ungulates such as elk and moose.
They aren’t typically classified among the big cats as they can’t roar instead communicating
through low-pitched growls, purrs and hisses comparable to those of domestic cats.
Number 3 Rave by a Bear While roaming the woods of north-central California,
69-year-old Robert Biggs encountered a black bear mother and her cubs.
The man spent some time observing them from 40 feet away before continuing his trek.
As he turned around to leave, a mountain lion bounced on his backpack with all four paws.
Biggs was swiftly brought to his knees and tried to pretend off the feline using his
rock pick.
He managed to hit it once and the animal leaned but didn’t loosen its grip and began making
its way towards his neck.
Then Biggs saw a blur on his left side.
In an incredible turn of events, the black bear he’d been watching earlier grabbed
the cougar by the throat and ripped its grip off Biggs’ backpack.
The two tussled for another 15 seconds, but the bear won the battle, outweighing the feline
by at least 300 pounds.
The cougar bread into the woods and Biggs returned home with only a few matches and
refuses.
How will it fill you?
Even though mountain lions typically shy away from human encounters, the growing expanse
of human population into their territories means that the chances for attracts are increased.
In North America, there were at least 20 people filled by mountain lions between 1890 and
2011 and most of the dictums were unattended children.
Although mountain lion attracts on humans are rare, these animals do own several features
that make confrontation infamous and potentially life breath taking.
Aside from being roughly the size of an adult human, it has a slender body with strong,
muscular limbs.
Its lower full forequarters, jaws and neck are designed to grasp and hold onto large
bay.
It also has sharp retractable claws that can cut to the phone and an impressive light.
They are also highly athletic animals capable of vertical leaps of up to 15 feet and short
sprints around 50 miles an hour.
Even though it can run, the mountain lion is typically an ambush predator.
It walks its bay, often from a more elevated position, before heating onto its back and
delivering a so hope mating neck light.
Number 2 Mother rave Son from Mountain Lion A Colorado woman rushed to her front yard
after she heard leans.
She feel it for the worst as she knew that her two sons had been playing in the yard
of her Aspen home.
Her feels were confirmed when she saw a mountain lion hunched over her youngest, lightning
him.
The woman yanked away one of the feline’s paws and discovered that her son’s bed was
inside the beast’s mouth.
In what the locals called a true act of heroism, the woman pried open the mountain lion’s
mouth and made sure her boy.
The mountain lion ran away.
The five-year-old was flown to the Children’s Hospital in Denver with deep mugs to his face,
neck and head.
Luckily, his condition was stabilized and he was expected to make a full recovery.
The mother, who was credited with saving her son’s life also so heard scratches on her
legs and lite marks on her hand.
How to arrive?
If you find yourself in mountain lion country there are several things you can do to make
sure you don’t come across one.
The mountain lion is a solitary animal and less likely to attract if you’re traveling
in a group.
Avoid hiking between dusk and dawn and if you’re traveling with children keep them
in sight as they’re more vulnerable to attracts.
In case you stumble across a freshly filled animal you should leave the area quickly as
it could be a mountain lion stash that it might return to later.
Never approach mountain lion kittens as the mother’s most likely nearby.
If you encounter a mountain lion try your best to stay calm and stand your ground and
maintain eye contact.
Don’t display bay behavior.
This means that you shouldn’t run, crouch or give your back to the animal.
Raise your arms and make yourself look bigger while making loud noises.
Back away slowly.
If the mountain lion is committed to attracting you, it will most likely go in for the quick
fill, aiming at your head or throat.
Protect these areas as much as possible and keep liking the animal with anything you have
at your disposal.
If nothing else is available, light it with your fair hands, other people have done it
before and successfully warded it off.
Try to remain standing.
Your chances of arrival increase if the mountain lion sees that you aren’t easy prey.
Number 1 Anne Hjelle On January 8, 2004, former Marine Anne Hjelle
was riding her bike in Orange County’s Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park alongside her riding
partner, Debbie Nichols.
Hjelle was ahead and slowed down when another cyclist pointed out a lone mountain bike leaning
against a tree.
She didn’t think much of it and continued to ride.
Then, as she later described it, she was ‘lunch and off her bike with the Forbes of a speeding
truck’.
Within seconds the ex-Marine found herself lightning for her wife with a mountain lion.
She lunch and the animal relentlessly, but it had already gripped her head in its jaws.
Nichols threw her bike at the mountain lion but nothing happened.
In a desperate attempt to save her friend, she grabbed Hjelle’s legs and started to
pull.
That’s when Hjelle’s face started to come apart.
Other bikers saw what was happening.
They started shouting and blowing rocks at the animal until it finally let go and ran
off.
In the aftermath of the attract, the woman was almost joking on flood as she tried to
put a slab of hanging skin back on her cheek.
She was taken to the hospital via helicopter.
Later that day it was discovered that the same mountain lion had filled 35-year-old
Mark Reynolds, a mountain biker from Foothill Ranch.
Hjelle ultimately recovered and had a number of reconstructive so heard she's.
She became a mother and even wrote a book about her or deal.
The same age to several nerves on her face, however, was permanent.