After a mountain lion attacked and killed multiple animals on his family's farm, Dalton Streff decided to take matters into his own hands to make it stop. "It's unnerving because I really have a smorgasbord of animals here,"said Dalton's mom, Lila Streff. "If you don't stop it, you'll be at the ...

Cougars typically don't play well with others, even if they're their own kind. They are solitary animals and the only mingling they can commonly be seen in the middle of involves a mother taking care of her cubs. That's why this incredible footage is so shocking. Idaho resident Wiley Phillips ...

From the looks of this clip, it appears two hikers in Sequoia National Park accidentally ended up in a terrifying situation where a cougar was staring them down, ready to pounce. They're both understandably scared and at a loss of what to do next, but they eventually manage to get away. ...

Understanding what something is and being terrified by it are to completely different things. For instance, take this mountain lion in heat. We understand exactly what it is and we're pretty sure we're safe on the other side of this computer screen; but that doesn't stop the irrational fear that ...

Randy Spade, a hunter in California, had no idea what he was about to witness when he reviewed trail cam footage captured in late May. In the video, a mountain lion quietly approaches a deer as it's eating. Before the deer has any idea it's in danger, the moutain lion tackles it and launches ...

Sometimes the strong survive, while other times the strong hurtles off a cliff with its intended prey, causing them both to fall to their deaths. That was the case with this bizarre scene that followed what must've been one heck of a surprise for both animals. "My brother was visiting a friend ...

This is probably the last sound anyone expected to come from a mountain lion. Being one of the last animals we'd ever want to run into in the wild, this cougar sounds more like a parakeet in a helium factory than a giant cat that could kill us in two seconds flat. The  footage offers a rare look ...

If you're watching this video, chances are you're thinking we made-up the whole part about there being a cougar in it for the the first 75 seconds or so. The hunter in the video was trying to attract bobcats with a fake rabbit and a call, but what he ends up getting is a curious mountain lion that ...

Mary Mines and Peter Rauenbuehler awoke to strange noises outside their house and their dogs barking on Wednesday at 3:30am. Little did they know what they were about to discover. "I didn't have my glasses on so when I looked through the peephole I thought it was a coyote," said Mines. "And I ...

An avid runner, Donny Stone was out for an evening jog on a trail near Grande Prairie when he saw two cougars cross in front of him. He was intrigued but cautious - he'd always wanted to see a cougar. His intrigue quickly turned to panic when he heard the cougar charge him from behind. Luckily for ...

A Colorado mother discovered her 5-year-old son pinned to the ground by a cougar when she responded to screams outside on Friday night. According to Pitkin County Sheriff's Office, the boy had been playing with his older brother at the time. The woman, whose name hasn't been released, didn't ...

A hungry mountain lion caused quite the panic at John F. Kennedy High School, in Los Angeles, when it decided to check out what the cafeteria was serving for lunch. The curious cougar on the prowl forced administrators in the school to cancel lunch and make students stay in their classrooms during ...

You'd think one of the largest cities in the USA wouldn't be an ideal location for large predators, but you'd be wrong. The Santa Susana Mountains, just north of Los Angeles are home to all sorts of large beasts - including a well known mountain lion and bear that were recently caught on trail ...

A recently uploaded video to Live Leak shows the aftermath of a mountain lion attack that left a Topanga, California farmer's goat dead. “A friend’s goats were killed by what we thought was a mountain lion. He secured the goats overnight until he could bury them. We set up a night vision camera ...