Mountain lion choked to death by runner in Colorado was orphaned cub, officials say

A mountain lion strangled by a Colorado man after it attacked him was a young cub, likely orphaned and weighing no more than 18 kg, officials said on Friday. Travis Kauffman made headlines last month after he said he had survived a rare mountain lion attack on 4 February and had suffocated the big cat by stepping on its throat. A necropsy, the animal equivalent of an autopsy, showed the animal was a cougar, most likely male and aged only four to five months old.

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