LAist: Weird Los Angeles: On The Track...

Apot

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:32:53 -0800

Worth noting, in addition to having a shorter tail bobcats are much smaller than mountain lions. Although they may be dangerous to some pets, they don't really pose a threat to people.

Neil Arnold

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:19:02 -0800

Even so, bees, dogs, snakes and deer cause more injury and deaths each year. At the end of the day, the woodlands are the territory of these animals and if people stumble into such areas, we cannot always blame such animals for attack, the same could be said for Great White's, wild boar and bears. These are shy and elusive creatures. Most attacks do involve joggers and children as they are fleeting through the trees, but unfortunately man has always had a problem with nature, hence the fact that cougars were wiped out in some States, just like the boar and wolves in the UK. Who is the more barbaric ?

BingosDingo

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:45:50 -0800

I hope everyone is aware of just how dangerous this largest of the lesser cats is. A Mountain Lion (cougar, painter, panther, catamount, or puma) is considered a member of the Felidae family (along with house cats) because it cannot roar. Regardless it is a stealthy animal capable of taking down and killing prey much larger than itself. This includes humans. Here is a list of Puma attacks in California starting in the late eighteen hundreds. There have been some deaths, but mostly disfiguring injuries.