How do people allow lions just roam around? Read this story please.
A woman in California has been praised as an “absolute hero” for rescuing her five-year-old son from a mountain lion attack.
According to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the child was playing outside his house near Calabasas in Los Angeles County on Thursday when the mountain lion attacked, dragging him about 45 yards.
Alerted by the boy’s screams, his mother ran outside and started striking and punching the mountain lion with her bare hands until the animal released the child, although the mountain lion managed to inflict wounds to the boy’s head, neck and upper torso.
Authorities said he was transported to the hospital immediately by his parents and will remain there as he recovers from his injuries.
The animal was later shot dead by wildlife authorities.
The cougar (Puma concolor) is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae. Native to the Americas, its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. It is an adaptable, generalist species, occurring in most American habitat types. Due to its wide range, it has many names, including puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther and painter.
