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The below is from the Sacramento Bee and highlights a topic of interest - human-wildlife interaction.
Conventional theory was lions were only interested in moving "targets". Well, ...
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A man was attacked by a mountain lion near Nevada City early Sunday while sleeping alongside a tributary of the Yuba River.
The California Department of Fish and Game confirmed the unusual attack after investigating the scene and the man's injuries.
Fish and Game said the man was traveling through Nevada County on a planned hiking trip when he decided to stop for the night to sleep. He laid a sleeping bag out on the ground and went to sleep. Around 1 a.m., he was attacked in the sleeping bag by a mountain lion for what he described as 90 seconds to 2 minutes.
The man said the animal bit and clawed him through the sleeping bag, through a cap he was wearing and through his clothes. The lion ceased the attack, looked at him from 15 feet away for another 15 to 30 seconds, then ran into the night.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/02/4605600/mountain-lion-attacks-man-near.html#storylink=cpy
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fasteddy
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It must have thought he was a whitetail taco...
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kewlynx
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This is one reason why you get OFF the trail and AWAY from a waterway if you're going to bivvy out for the night.
The 4-leggeds use them trails too. I'm guessing the coug didn't know what that funny-looking lump was about that came out of nowhere.
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Snowtoy
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Tonight's local news said if the trackers don't find more tracks tomorrow, that will be the end of the hunt. It really doesn't seem necessary to waste money hunting down the lion, it wasn't as if he was attacked sleeping outside on his porch. With the campfire restrictions in effect and as cold as it gets here at night, he was likely fully zipped up in his mummy bag, had the lion truely meant to attack and eat him, he wouldn't have been able to fend it off. I figure the lion was investigating this unfamiliar item on the trail, reached out and popped, the man awoke startling the lion, and it attacked out of fear.
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fasteddy
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It's a cat. Cats like to attack stuff moving under covers. I've been attacked by mine a lot. I had one cat that would attack you every time you moved. One learned to sleep motionless, or not at all.
The difference was in size of cat. You invade somebody's house, what happens to you is on you.
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stony-man
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Loc: Ohio - Northeast/Centralish
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Quote:
It's a cat. Cats like to attack stuff moving under covers. I've been attacked by mine a lot. I had one cat that would attack you every time you moved. One learned to sleep motionless, or not at all.
The difference was in size of cat. You invade somebody's house, what happens to you is on you.
In my house, a cat doing that would have learned a very different, and final, lesson. I do not wake up very well. :)
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