A mountain lion that was put down by park rangers after it attacked a 5-year-old boy in Malibu Creek State Park was a young, ...

A mountain lion that was put down by park rangers after it attacked a 5-year-old boy in Malibu Creek State Park earlier this month was identified as a slightly underweight female just over a year old.

New evidence from a mountain lion attack of a little ... cougar attacks on humans concluded that female cougars were more likely to attack people than male cougars. Also, children 10 years of ...

are overrepresented in mountain lion attacks, he said. A 2011 study on the risk factors associated with cougar attacks on humans concluded that female cougars were more likely to attack people than ...