Posted on 10/13/2020 8:38:31 AM PDT by SJackson
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Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Burgess was on a 10-mile run on Saturday up Slate Canyon in Provo, Utah. He told the Deseret News that when he saw four cougar cubs on the trail, he took out his phone and started filming.
But when Burgess saw the young animals' mother come along, he knew he was in trouble. For the next six minutes, he recorded their encounter.
The mother cougar stalked him — hissing, growling and threatening — as Burgess backed away, keeping his eyes locked on her. Mostly, he alternated between yelling a stream of profanities at the mother mountain lion and calling the animal "dude."
"Dude, you're scary!" Burgess tells the animal at one point, adding: "You're a (bleep) scary kitty cat." A few minutes later, after she repeatedly lunges in Burgess' direction, he says, "Come on, dude, I don't feel like dying today."
Amazingly, Burgess came away totally unharmed after he picked up a rock and hurled it at her. According to the Deseret News, a local official with Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources, Scott Root, told Burgess: "You did awesome." But, Root added, people should consider not running alone on trails.
“If she was truly on the hunt, the man would never know what hit him.”
There’s a little bar/burger joint on the highway into Ranier national park that has a stuffed mountain lion taken there in the 60s.
It’s 9ft from nose to tail and weighed 270lbs. A female.
You would not want to meet her dad.
Projectiles are the right answer, whether 900 fps or 80 fps. I would not have been filming!
Domesticated house cats don’t even respond the the word “NO!”, pretty sure his tone was just pissing her off even more.
LOL!
Pretty intense. Another example given to pack in the wild.
True, but make sure your companion can't run as fast as you can.
The Dude abides.
Hot tubs are one of their native habitats.
That brings new meaning to the phrase Pant load.
“Where is the guys’ car?!”
He was in a ten mile run, so it could have been five miles away.
And that's just in North America. Imagine if you were in Australia!
Wow, I just watched the whole video. I cannot believe how long that puma tracked him and the large number of bluff charges. That is scary as can be.
and if the cougar actually attacked him she would be put down and the cubs raised in captivity. The guy is stupid and should not be left unattended.
Dad has been twice - but mostly in the civilized cities, though he did climb Ayre’s Rock! (It’s no longer open to the public; the Native Australians have claimed it.)
Also, the Amazon and the ocean have lots of things ready, willing and able to kill you in a heartbeat.
No, Thanks!
I worked overseas in my mid twenties for a couple years. My first assignment was at a paper mill in the Amazon. One of my hosts asked “Do you want to see my spider collection?”
He brought out some cigar boxes and I figured each box probably held 20 to 50 spiders. Nope! Each box held ONE spider. Yikes!
Last week 4 coyotes came out of the woods and were just looking at me on Tuesday night.
I had my pistol but it was still spooky.
Had been hearing them yipping but for the last 2 weeks they've been howling like wolves, making a helluva racket.
They'll do that when the pack seperates to hunt or signal to another pack.
Sat on the back porch Wed night and popped a young, 40 lb male and a 50 lb female on Thurs.
Haven't heard a peep from them since.
*SHUDDER*
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