Male mountain lion
This Canmore, Alberta resident was killed by a cougar while skiing on Cascade Fire Road near Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park, Alberta Īttacked and killed while mountain biking at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in southern Orange County, California. Killed by an adult female cougar in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park while hiking when he got ahead of his family. Mother killed while defending her 6-year-old son on a horseback riding trip in Tulameen, British Columbia. Killed while hiking alone near Cuyamaca Peak in California's Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. Long distance runner and Placerville resident was attacked and killed while jogging on the American River Canyon Trail in California's Auburn State Recreation Area. Īttacked and killed in Kyuquot, British Columbia by a young female cougar while playing in the school yard. Killed and eaten while jogging a familiar route on a hill above Clear Creek High School in Idaho Springs, Colorado. Stalked and killed by a four-year-old male cougar at Catface Mountain in British Columbia near Tofino.Īttacked and killed by at least two, possibly three, cougars while riding a tricycle behind his home in Missoula County, Montana near Evaro. Killed by cougar near Gold River, British Columbia, while walking on a road. Killed by a 3-year-old female cougar in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico Killed and eaten while walking on a beach in Kyuquot, British Columbia Īttacked, dragged off, and eaten in Tampico, Mexico Īttacked and killed in Lytton, British Columbia by male cougar while Wells was playing with his sisters Killed by a cougar inside his family home near Beaumont, Texas.Īttacked and killed at Olema, Washington as he tried to outrun a cougar for about 100 yards (91 m) This is the only instance of a double fatality and the only instance where the victims succumbed to disease rather than the injuries sustained in the attack. Both victims died from rabies, not from the physical injuries. Rabid cougar attacked a woman and child in Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County, California. The paper confirmed the local coroner never received a report of a child suffering a violent death in this manner. It was reported in a local paper the following day that the story was a hoax. News stories variously reported his age as 2 and 14. Killed by a cougar near Balboa, California. Marklein received fatal injuries while McCarty was attacked, but survived. Marklein and A friend named McCarty both from New York state were attacked. Killed by a cougar in Bushy Cane Creek Magoffin County, Kentucky.
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Killed and eaten by two cougars while playing near his home in Quartz Valley, Siskiyou County, CaliforniaĪttacked by a cougar east of the Santa Caterina Landing in Baja California. Patton was absent from home at the time." Lane County, Oregon She attacked the cougar with such resolution that it dropped its burden, and the heroic woman taking the lifeless body under one arm and her only remaining child under the other, made her way to a neighbor's house, a mile and a half distant. The mother seeing the beast drag her child towards the timber, seized a stick and started in pursuit. The child was playing in the yard and within, ten feet of the door of the dwelling, when the cougar sprang upon it from the bushes which grew near the house. Patton, living on Rear Creek, three miles west of the Long Tom, in Lane county, was killed by a cougar. "Killed by a Cougar.- The Oregon Harold of August 24th contains the following: On the 21st instant, a little child three years old, of Mr. Fighting back with sticks and rocks, or even bare hands, is often effective in persuading an attacking cougar to disengage. Exaggerating the threat to the animal through intense eye contact, loud shouting, and any other action to appear larger and more menacing, may make the animal retreat. The majority of the child victims listed here were not accompanied by adults.Īs with many predators, a cougar may attack if cornered, if a fleeing human stimulates their instinct to chase, or if a person " plays dead." Standing still however may cause the cougar to consider a person easy prey. Fatal cougar attacks are extremely rare and occur much less frequently than fatal snake bites, fatal lightning strikes, or fatal bee stings. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther.Ī total of 126 attacks, 27 of which are fatal, have been documented in North America in the past 100 years. The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther.
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This is a list of known or suspected fatal cougar attacks that occurred in North America by decade in chronological order.
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