“This is a very common time of year to take mountain lion sightings and reports … especially in Larimer County, where this is very good mountain lion habitat,” she said. “Trails in this area are in pretty remote land, so it’s wooded, it’s rocky, there’s elevation gains and dips.”
Mountain lion attacks are rare, and Colorado’s last suspected fatal attack was in 1999, when a three-year-old was killed. Two years before that, a 10-year-old boy was killed by a lion and dragged away while hiking with family members in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Last year in Northern California, two brothers were stalked and then attacked by a lion that they tried to fight off. One of the brothers was killed.
The animals, also known as cougars, catamounts and other names, can weigh 60 kilograms and grow to more than 1.8 metres long. They primarily eat deer.
