From this item on the dead WA cyclist:
https://www.outsideonline.com/231213...cougar-attack?
"...doesn't mean the cyclists did anything wrong. In fact,
“They did everything right,” Myers says. When the cougar
initially started to pursue the riders, they stopped,
shouted at it, and swung their bikes in the air to scare it..."
contrast with:
https://www.ammoland.com/2017/12/ia-...#axzz5HB4nMxoM
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