![]() ![]() ![]() “I threw my hands up in the air and started shouting. “I turned around and was pretty bummed out to see a mountain lion,” Kaufmann said, wearing the same blue, long-sleeve shirt he ran in that day. Travis Kauffman, a 31-year-old environmental consultant, said he was midway through what he thought would be a 12- to 15-mile training run between Lory State Park and Horsetooth Mountain Park when he heard rustling behind him. “I should go buy a bunch of lottery tickets,” he said.With still-healing cuts on his face and arm, the trail runner who killed a mountain lion on February 4 at Horsetooth Mountain Park near Fort Collins, Colorado, finally revealed himself on Thursday afternoon, February 14, at a press conference facilitated by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and the Larimer County Department of Natural Resources. Kauffman admitted that he was lucky to survive the attack without any permanent injuries. The wounds to his face, neck, wrist and legs required more than 20 stitches. “The decisions were pretty instinctual,” he added. Kauffman, who is 5-feet-10 inches tall and weighs about 155 pounds, said he had “zero” martial arts or wrestling training, and acted purely on adrenaline. There are between 4,500 and 5,500 mountain lions in Colorado, and since 1990 the state has seen 16 people injured and three killed from mountain lion attacks, the agency said. Mountain lions, also known as pumas or panthers, are native to the Americas and their range extends from the Canadian Yukon to the tip of South America, according to the National Wildlife Federation.Ĭougar attacks on humans are rare, however, with fewer than 20 reported fatalities in North America over the last 100 years, according to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife website. “My fear response turned into more of a fight response,” he said. ![]()
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