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Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws
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That's not how predators work. Predators are extremely vulnerable to starvation due to injury. If a predator attacks a creature that's too large or strong it has a chance to be injured during the kill. This then reduces it's ability to hunt which could directly lead to starvation.
Predators rarely attack creatures they aren't familiar with or are close in size to them for this reason. There are some exceptions here with pack predators like wolves and hyenas but solo hunters like pumas won't usually attack a human. Humans are not pumas regular prey and they are far too big to safely dispatch. There are also exceptions as noted above for illness or desperation.
For instance: Grizzly Man died due to a bear attacking him that was more aggressive due to food scarcity:
Or they do it because you're in their territory or protecting their young. Cougar attacks are not some super rare thing, there is a reason they have warnings all over the place. The more we are in their land, the more we start looking like meals as well.