The dad was actually holding hands with his son at the time of the attack, walking along the trail.
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If mountain lions were conducive to preying upon humans, there would be far more incidents. The average mountain lion is very well-behaved.Tyler Baskfield
Wildlife is exactly that -- wild and unpredictable and occasionally incidents like this do happen.
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It's typical mountain lion behavior after an attack like that. They're pretty curious to come back and see if they killed their prey.
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They don't like seeing people any more than people like seeing mountain lions. This is a very rare incident that a mountain lion would actually attack someone.
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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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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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