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Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws
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Normal Cougars are not aggressive to humans. If an individual cougar becomes aggressive to humans, it's not a normal cougar and it is killed.
When you're in their territory they absolutely are. This is like saying grizzly bears are calm animals and don't attack people unless there is something wrong with them.
You're very much wrong. Normal behavior of cougars and yes bears is not aggressive to humans or to hunt humans. They want nothing to do with humans and their normal behavior is to get away from them.
The fuck are you talking about...
https://www.adn.com/alaska-beat/article/study-most-black-bears-attack-humans-may-see-them-prey/2011/05/11/
We're prey animals to them until we're not. Stop spewing uneducated bullshit. You're a walking lunch box to most predators on this planet. They're not really afraid of us until we make ourselves seem like a harder to kill meal.
Lol this is the second time I've seen that link. People furiously googling and getting one result. So here's what I said before:
That article said 1) they are out hunting. Not that they are hunting humans, but I'm pretty sure you read it as such. And 2) "testing you out as a possible prey item," said Dr. Herrero, a professor emeritus at the Univ". Testing mf testing. By bears in deep country that don't have much experience with humans. They do not default think that you are prey. I've had bears size me up and you can just see their mind is "what are you, hey you're not prey" before wandering off.
Anyway what I wanted to convey is that normal behavior (which is the vast, vast, vast majority of behavior) these animals do not see humans as prey. But yes in the very, very, excruciatingly rare occasions they attack humans, a portion of that can be something went wrong in their brain or in the situation and they may have seen you as prey. This is extraordinarily rare, as you can see by the rareness of attacks to even begin with. But people want to read that as normal behavior is hunting humans as prey, which it's not. It's the edge case. There's a huge difference which I hope you now see.
I can't keep correcting you all day, so ciao.
They post it because it's fucking true. We are prey to bears and large cats. Stop acting like we're not. They will turn tail usually when we present ourselves as a harder target, but acting like we're not prey to them is stupid as fuck. It's also rare for us to be attacked because we have destroyed their habitats and killed most of them off. Mt. Lions are considered threatened species and are just finally making a comeback. It's like people saying wolves don't look at us like a walking ham sandwich because there hasn't been that many attacks...no shit because we killed pretty much all of them off.