Man claims attack by lion, saved by a bear

[Analog]

A Paradise man says he is lucky to be alive after an attack by a mountain lion Monday morning. Robert Biggs, 69, often hikes in the Bean Soup Flat area, which is about a mile and a half above Whisky Flats. He came across a mother bear, a yearling and a newborn, which were about 40 feet from where he was standing.
After watching the bear family for a few minutes he decided to leave them be and turned to walk back up the trail. As he turned, a mountain lion pounced on him grabbing hold of his backpack with all four paws.
"They usually grab hold of your head with all four paws, but my backpack was up above my head and (the mountain lion) grabbed it instead," Biggs said. "It must have been stalking the little bear, but it was on me in seconds."
He wrestled with the cat, striking it in the head with a rock pick. The cat screamed when it was hit with the pick, but didn't let go, Biggs said. Before he knew it, the mother bear came from behind and pounced on the cat, tearing its grip from the backpack.
The bear and the cat battled for about 15 seconds, Biggs said, until the cat finally ran away. The bear went on its way as well. Biggs ended up with bite marks, scratches and bruises to his arm, but was otherwise uninjured.
Biggs, a naturist, has hiked that same trail several times and has seen the mother bear and its cub last spring and fall. He said the encounters with the bears were friendly.



"(The cub) stood up on its hind legs and put its paws up and I
got to play patty-cake with it," he said.

The patty-cake game was simply touching the bottom of its paw with his open palm, more like a high-five. He said the mother watched the two play and her only reaction was to call the cub back. Biggs said he is certain that the mother that saved him during the mountain lion attack is the same bear he has seen in that area before.
"They're pretty territorial," he said, adding that he recognized some of the bear's markings. Though his arm was pretty cut up, he chose not to go to the doctor, a move that concerned his wife Suzanne.
"There were puncture wounds and skin was hanging off, and you don't know what's in their paws," she said.
Biggs said he wasn't worried because he had a tetanus shot a couple of years ago. Biggs simply put peroxide on his wounds and expects that will be enough.
As for lessons learned, Suzanne quipped, "He doesn't learn."
Biggs just chuckled at the comment. The incident isn't going to stop him from enjoying the Ridge's wildlife.


http://www.paradisepost.com/news/ci_20269991/man-claims-attack-by-lion-saved-by-bear

Old thread bumped by Silver Prime and, despite his attempts, NOT going to become another Lion vs Tiger thread.
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[HardcoreRobot]

prob shens, but cool story

 

[SlitheryDee]

Certainly an interesting story, but I think that guy is a moron. You don't play patty cake with a bear cub while the mother watches. You don't go hiking alone in areas where there are lions and bears. You certainly shouldn't go around with the idea in your head that the wild animals are your special friends, who actually give a shit about your welfare.

 

[busydude]

Though his arm was pretty cut up, he chose not to go to the doctor, a move that concerned his wife Suzanne. "There were puncture wounds and skin was hanging off, and you don't know what's in their paws," she said. Biggs said he wasn't worried because he had a tetanus shot a couple of years ago. Biggs simply put peroxide on his wounds and expects that will be enough.

D:

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

The lion & bear should have played tug-o-war with his body.

 

[ElFenix]

dude high fived a wild bear :awe:

 

[Zeze]

Cat aggro'd the bear and got pwnt. LOL.

 

[busydude]

Is alchemyst 69 years old?

 

[lxskllr]

Somewhat related...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tS...fsrP-n-pN0e-tbNQg&index=59&feature=plpp_video

 

[BladeVenom]

Not going to the doctor is a bad move. A tetanus shot only protects against one type of bacteria.

 

[yh125d]

Yeah I could totally kill a mountain lion with my bear hands

 

[zinfamous]

I was willing to believe it until he said he played paddy cake with the bear cub.

I mean, strange things have happened between bears and humans, even with a mother and her cubs, but that is really odd--even if the mother recognizes him.

 

[zinfamous]

Cat aggro'd the bear and got pwnt. LOL.

hahaha

 

[tboo]

Looks like the guy might have made it up :http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/03/30/mans-claim-of-bear-rescue-could-be-hoax/

 

[JTsyo]

You don't mess with a bear's cub. That should be wilderness 101. I could see the bear attacking the mountain lion that was previously stalking her cubs.

 

[yh125d]

Yeah I could totally kill a mountain lion with my bear hands

I really thought this would have worked

 

[kage69]

I made it as far as...

"He came across a mother bear, a yearling and a newborn, which were about 40 feet from where he was standing.
After watching the bear family for a few minutes he decided to leave them be..."


...and decided to disregard this story as bullshit.

 

[Silver Prime]

It was a mountain lion, so why is there a african lion on the first post picture?

lol

Pumas, have been recorded killing black and brown bears before, but I would guess the bears size advantage alone would be to intimadating most of the time for the cougar.

But epic story, just seen one a few months back where a Puma killed a ladie and dragged her up a cliff, the second attack was on a man with a bike, after tons of people shouted and surrounded the cat and chased him off they found the ladie further up above the cliff stone dead for probably about 18 hours.

There are so many Puma vs Grizzly bear storys and videos to even movies, its quite intresting there isint any documentarys more of the other big cats in inter-specific relations...on there own accord of course.

 

[brainhulk]

this is precisely why the libruls need to stop messing with our right to bear arms

 

[Silver Prime]

this is precisely why the libruls need to stop messing with our right to bear arms

Yeah so Jr can go live up to his papy the great hunter of wild and ferocious mindless beast and exterminate these monsters to extinction eh?

Huh! Guns are for the weak minded. People get killed by them because meat is all they can eat, they are proned to killing anything that walks, yet humans in general who claim to be the smartest beings on the planet cant even read a sign that says...Danger wild Pumas and Bears.Thats like putting a sign up and saying Fire! Do not touch...and some dumbass goes jumping over the tiki god of lava.

If you dont wanna be killed by a Puma or Bear, then dont be in the same fucking area as a Puma and bear...simple as that. But no, we have self rightous people who say...oh we are entitled to our own land as well, yeah out of all the billions of un-inhabitaed square miles on earth you want the one where there is a already situated problem, instead of the reigons thats basicaly empty and full of reliable sources. And people who trophy hunt are probably the biggest cowards on the planet, if you wanna hunt a tiger, bear or lion, then try using only your hands then you'll be a real man, because I could pay a kid 5 loli pops to go up to you and shoot you in the face with a pistol, that wont make him any more of a man.

Tell these same mooks if they wana prove there man hood, then step into the octogon and get there faces punted in instead of killing animals who have tons of other problems than worrying about some rich asshole with insecurity issues, other than that, almost every animal in the last 50 years had basicaly gone and or is going extinct because of guns...thats why sometimes when I hear about genocide, human vs human wars, to shoot outs having tens of thousand people fall victim to the gun I just laugh, atleast I can hope all the gun weilding brainless dumb fucks will kill them selves off before they do all the animals; who just want to exist.

 

[Soundmanred]

Whoooooooooooooooooosh.....

 

[brainhulk]

Whoooooooooooooooooosh.....

lmao

 

[Paratus]

I really thought this would have worked

I lol'd

 

[exdeath]

Yeah so Jr can go live up to his papy the great hunter of wild and ferocious mindless beast and exterminate these monsters to extinction eh?

Huh! Guns are for the weak minded. People get killed by them because meat is all they can eat, they are proned to killing anything that walks, yet humans in general who claim to be the smartest beings on the planet cant even read a sign that says...Danger wild Pumas and Bears.Thats like putting a sign up and saying Fire! Do not touch...and some dumbass goes jumping over the tiki god of lava.

If you dont wanna be killed by a Puma or Bear, then dont be in the same fucking area as a Puma and bear...simple as that. But no, we have self rightous people who say...oh we are entitled to our own land as well, yeah out of all the billions of un-inhabitaed square miles on earth you want the one where there is a already situated problem, instead of the reigons thats basicaly empty and full of reliable sources. And people who trophy hunt are probably the biggest cowards on the planet, if you wanna hunt a tiger, bear or lion, then try using only your hands then you'll be a real man, because I could pay a kid 5 loli pops to go up to you and shoot you in the face with a pistol, that wont make him any more of a man.

Tell these same mooks if they wana prove there man hood, then step into the octogon and get there faces punted in instead of killing animals who have tons of other problems than worrying about some rich asshole with insecurity issues, other than that, almost every animal in the last 50 years had basicaly gone and or is going extinct because of guns...thats why sometimes when I hear about genocide, human vs human wars, to shoot outs having tens of thousand people fall victim to the gun I just laugh, atleast I can hope all the gun weilding brainless dumb fucks will kill them selves off before they do all the animals; who just want to exist.

Ah to be 14 again.

 

[mammador]

Erm... what was he doing there in the first place? And why is the cougar "evil" for attacking him?

Look, he was ALONE in a WILD area, well duh, where else do big cats live? lol... If anything he was lucky the bear didn't get him, especially since it was with its cub.

This may offend people, but I have zero sympathy for people "attacked" by wild animals, especially without taking appropriate precautions. An animal simply sees you in its territory, as a threat, or as food. it is acting per its own nature. I hate how the media make it sound like "eek! Those evil wild animals! Poor fellow!!"