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Revision as of 22:13, 4 March 2011
This is a list of fatal cougar attacks that occurred in North America by decade in chronological order. The cougar is also commonly known as Puma, Mountain Lion and Panther. The sub-population in Florida, which is the only population east of the Mississippi River, is known as the Florida Panther.
At least 23 people in North America were killed by cougars between 1890 and 2010, including six in California. More than two-thirds of the Canadian fatalities occurred on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Although fatal cougar attacks are extremely rare and occur much less frequently than fatal snake bites, fatal lightning strikes or fatal bee stings, children are particularly vulnerable. The vast majority of the child victims listed herein were alone or accompanied only by other children.
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Before 1970
| Name, age, gender | Date | Location, comments |
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| Arthur Dangle, 7, male | June 19, 1890 | Killed by two cougars while playing near his home in Quartz Valley, Siskiyou County, California |
| Isola Kennedy, 38, female; Earl Wilson, 10, male | July 5, 1909 | Rabid cougar attacked a woman and child in Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County, California. Both victims died from rabies, not from the physical injuries. This is the only instance of a double fatality and the only instance where the victims succumbed to disease rather than the injuries sustained in the attack. |
| Jimmie Fehlhaber, 13, male | December 17, 1924 | Attacked and killed in Olema, Washington as he tried to outrun a cougar for about 100 yards |
| Dominic Taylor, 7, male | June 1949 | Attacked and killed while walking on a beach in British Columbia |