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Do pumas attack humans?

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Pumas (aka mountain lions) very seldom attack humans. They much prefer to avoid us. There are several situations in which they will attack. First, they will if they feel cornered. Pretty much any animal will do this. Second, if you get between a female and her kittens, she will attack. read more

Here’s what we do know: cougars very rarely attack people. In fact, cougars very rarely interact with people. Unfortunately, the “what we don’t know” is a little eerie: we haven’t quite figured out why cougars attack, on the rare occasions that they do. read more

Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator–prey relationships at the University of California, Davis, studied the behavior of 185 people who were attacked by mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) between 1890 and 2000 in the U.S. and Canada. read more

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