Tyler Baskfield
Tyler Baskfield
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Wildlife is exactly that -- wild and unpredictable and occasionally incidents like this do happen.
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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 are still confident that this is the lion that attacked the boy.
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We're confident that we got the right mountain lion.
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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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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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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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They screamed and yelled at the cat and also used sticks and rocks to get it off the boy.
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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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That shows that our deer herds continue to do well.
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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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This is a very rare incident to happen.
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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.
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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.