It's not typical mountain lion behavior to attack a person like that. All of west Boulder is mountain lion habitat. Very rarely do they come into contact with people. They tend to be elusive.
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If you put deer and (ground) cover together, it's possible that mountain lions could be there. Boulder is bordered by mountain-lion habitat, and that's going to happen from time to time.Tyler Baskfield
If mountain lions were conducive to preying upon humans, there would be far more incidents. The average mountain lion is very well-behaved.
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At this point, we believe we have been as thorough as we can be. Because of the logistics of what took place that night, we still are confident that this is the right cat, it is very probable that this is the right cat.
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We would like to be able to say for certain that we killed the right lion, but unfortunately all we can say is that these protein tests neither confirm, nor disprove that this is the lion that was involved in the attack.
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This is a very rare incident to happen. Mountain lions tend to be very elusive. Typically mountain lions don't want any part of people.
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The dad was actually holding hands with his son at the time of the attack, walking along the trail.
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