I'm always entertained by stories like this featuring self-proclaimed animal experts that purport to know something about wild animals. In this case, it's California Mountain Lions attacking bikers and eating them - a dining novelty, I must admit - even in this day and age. I've heard of fast food, but this is a bit extreme.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=2026&e=6&u=/latimes_ts/20040109/ts_latimes/lionattacksocbikermanfounddeadnearby

What all the animal experts forget is something very fundamental. The experts may think they know the Mountain Lion, but you see my friends, the Mountain Lion is also a Man expert.

Could be a natural response to Global Warming - let's kill all the people and eat them.......

A Nature's way of 'biting' back...

Similar incidents are happening all over the globe, wherever human activities are encroaching on the last remains of wildlife habitat.

Those cats are not going down easy.

And without man's technology...he is an easy prey; a smorgasboard of tastes.

Without weapons, man can be taken down by a pack of pissed off marmots...

CG

They probably thought those mt. Bikers were a new kind of buffalo. It was big and it was moving so might as well see what it tastes like. They probably tried to eat the bikes.

The bikers probaly tried to cut and run. Big mistake. They should have put the bikes on their shoulders to make themselves look bigger. I saw that on THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY PART 2. This little kid was being stalked by a hyena, so he put this block of wood on top of his head to make himself look taller. It worked.

They could have tried to play dead, too. I don’t know if that works with cats as well as it does with bears.

Running from a 4 legged creature that can easily outrun you is counterproductive. Doing it with a block of wood on your head is simply a means for giving the beast some toothpicks after the fact.

The optimum technique is what I call the Michael Jackson Gambit. Set your hair on fire and run TOWARD the big cat, waving your arms in painful terror. The beast reacts in the following manner - "Who or what the flaming hell is that! I'm getting out of here."

Between fear of fire and fear of an insane person, the beast will clear the area fairly quickly. Unless of course the animal likes his meat morsels well done. :grin: