If you run into a cougar, your safest bet is to run. This is particularly the case, “if you are in a situation that allows you to run in a surefooted fashion with even strides — for instance, on dry, flat ground rather than uneven, rocky terrain or deep snow.” I am not responsible if you take this advice and things turn out badly. Blame the folks at Anthrozoos: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Interactions of People & Animals.
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5 Comments
There are cougars and then there are COUGARS.
I don’t know if running would keep you safe from the latter.
So if the research is in part based on “personal accounts” how did they interview all the people who ran away, were caught and eaten? Or did they just get to interview the people who were faster than the other person they were with? If my cat is any indication, if you run you are asking for trouble (unless you have a toy to throw out as a decoy).
@1 notmyrabbit: Thank you. I clicked through from my RSS reader to make that very same comment.
@ 1&3: I knew that would show up. I thought, “maybe I shouldn’t post this?!?” Then I thought, “No, of course I should!”
@2: Indeed. Problem with the methodology: you can’t interview dead people. Maybe they just don’t show up!
If you’re able to run from a cougar (1&3 type), she becomes more interested.
It’s the rest of us who are too old.
(Old joke, generally with bears: two hunters on safari are trying to keep away from a cougar when one sits down and changes from shoes to tennis shoes. “What do you think you’re going to do, outrun it?” “I don’t have to outrun it. I only have to outrun you.”)