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# How Past Cougars Tell Us a Story About Modern Attacks
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/how-past-cougars-tell-us-a-story-about-modern-attacks-2gpobv/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:10:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:45.000Z
- Description: What can cougar remains tell us about attacks, past and present?
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 1, Episode 15, #ZZZ_Episode_d2914d96-0cda-46eb-914e-d820b45b160a, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

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?