Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 22:31:54 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:

So that Puma would outweigh a fair subset of hikers, and even for hikers
who would outweigh the Puma, the Puma will win any altercation with a
weaponless hiker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n6jJBzT83E

I'm not volunteering for a cage match but like house cats mountain lions
depend on stealth to a great degree. There are a couple of trail camera
videos but they're very low quality. They do show the cat leaping on the
deer's back and biting the spine at the back of the neck. 

There was an incident here where a lion attacked a young kid at a youth
group outing but a couple of the counselors more or less beat on the cat
until he left. They're adter a meal, not a pitched battle.