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Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Mountain Lion Attack - Shannon Parker and the Desperate Cougar

Tooth & Claw: True Stories of Animal Attacks

Tooth & Claw

True Crime, Nature, Science, Comedy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A young woman was on an innocent hike, but a mountain lion had other plans. Wes, unexpectedly, digs into the relationship drama aspect of this story, while Jeff outs himself as a prolific mountain lion spotter.  ~~ To advertise on the show, contact us! ~~ Tooth & Claw is brought to you by QCODE. Support the show and get access to an extensive library of exclusive episodes like this by supporting the show on Patreon or joining the Grizzly Club on Apple Podcasts. For the latest updates on the show and all things wildlife, follow us at toothandclawpod.com and social:  Instagram: @ToothandClawPodcast Twitter: @ToothandClawPod Wes: @GrizKid Jeff: @jefe_larson Mike: @mikey3ds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Tooth and Clive, everyone. Today's episode is about mountain lions,

0:04.4

also known as kugas, pumas, and apparently like 400 other names.

0:09.0

Wes Larson, unsurprisingly, has them all memorized. I saw him flipping through his big cats of

0:14.0

North America flash carts earlier. He spends his time like this, of course, because he is an

0:18.6

expert wildlife biologist and has an unquenchable thirst for learning new things about animals,

0:23.2

such as the unique way mountain lions use their teeth to kill their prey. There's a little

0:28.2

tease for you about what's coming later on in the podcast. Anyways, in this episode,

0:32.4

Wes walks us through the real story of a short hiking trip gone terribly wrong,

0:36.4

involving a young lady and a desperate mountain lion. Also, real quick, before we get into all that,

0:41.9

if you haven't already, help us out by rating this podcast and subscribing to it. We've seen

0:46.4

that a lot of you already have, and we really appreciate it, and have seen some really good growth

0:51.0

because of it already. And that's all you guys. Thank you so much. All right, let's get to this episode's

0:56.5

story. All right, we're back again. What's up? What's new? Well, I think it's been an interesting

1:05.5

week for all three of us. Jeff gave me a special present this week. Jeff, what was it that you gave us?

1:13.2

Maybe you guys COVID? Yeah, let's go. Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, so we've all been dealing with that.

1:20.4

Luckily, me and Mike's symptoms have been pretty minor compared to how bad they can be. And Jeff,

1:26.0

you got it a little worse. Yeah, four days of fever, sore kidneys the last four days.

1:32.5

Yeah, and we've all been isolating and it ruined a little trip of mine, but that's okay. Speaking of

1:37.9

COVID, what are we talking about this week? We're talking about mountain lions this week. Honestly,

1:44.7

ever since we started the podcast, people have been asking for us to do a mountain lion episode.

1:50.3

And then it kind of hit full fever till last month when there's this big viral video that all

1:56.5

of us have seen of this kid in Utah who was out trail running and he was chased by a mountain lion

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