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# How past cougars tell us a story about modern attacks
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/culture/2018/10/how-past-cougars-tell-us-story-about-modern-attacks/
- Published: 2018-10-02T20:12:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-19T09:45:06.000Z
- Author: Knute Berger
- Tags: Culture, Mossback's Northwest, Multimedia, Video, Washington State, Wildlife, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-04-14 08:10, #Import 2025-05-09 14:42, #article

Cougar attacks are very rare, fatal ones even more so, but we had [one in Washington](https://crosscut.com/2018/07/cougar-attack-inquiry-raises-more-questions-it-answers?ref=cascadepbs.org) this year — the first [in nearly a century](https://crosscut.com/2018/05/two-fatal-cougar-attacks-two-very-different-eras?ref=cascadepbs.org). Knute Berger explores the mammalogy collection at the Burke Museum, and asks: What can cougar remains tell us about attacks, past and present?