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How past cougars tell us a story about modern attacks

How past cougars tell us a story about modern attacks
Knute Berger examines a collection of cougar bones in the Burke Museum's mammalogy collection.
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Knute Berger

Cougar attacks are very rare, fatal ones even more so, but we had one in Washington this year — the first in nearly a century. Knute Berger explores the mammalogy collection at the Burke Museum, and asks: What can cougar remains tell us about attacks, past and present?

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By Knute Berger

Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.