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Women pinned cougar during 'hand-to-hand combat' to save friend trapped in its jaws
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In general, we advise people not to go to places where it might upset or endanger animals or risk an encounter than might cause the animal to need to be killed.
If and when humans go there anyway, we still prioritize human life over the animal.
It just doesn't track to say "if you go into the woods, we'll let you get eaten by cougars".
This woman didn't deserve to die for riding a bike in a nature trail.
The animals motivation for the attack is only relevant for conservation efforts. Is there a disease we need to be aware of? A behavior shift, or a famine?
For the purposes of protecting people, we can't let an animal that has actively attacked survive, but depending on why it attacked we might be able to intervene to prevent other attacks and help other animals.
Oh, yeah, I understand that, I was thinking more like prohibition, for conservation.
Yeah, totally justifiable to restrict people's movements, give them stuff fines or even jail time for conservation.
If push comes to shove though, the person's life takes priority over the animals.
I personally wish it wasn't that way.