“Who knows what she would have done if he had turned around and run,” he added. “The fact that he ran into kittens first and was then pursued is considered a defensive action,” said DeBloois, adding that Burgess “appeared to do everything right” given the situation by making himself appear larger, louder, and avoiding running. Snopes spoke with Darren DeBloois, game mammals program coordinator with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, who said that the mountain lion’s body language and duration of stalking were likely in response to perceiving a threat to her cubs rather than an attempt at dinner. Very scary cougar encounter,” wrote Burgess in a post accompanying the YouTube video. She follows me for over six minutes acting very aggressive while I walk backwards up the trail. “Turns out they were cougar cubs and their mother was not happy to see me. What he encountered turned out to be much more threatening. when he came across what he thought were bobcats. Kyle Burgess, the original poster of the video, told the local Fox affiliate station KSTU that he was hiking in the Slate Canyon wilderness area of Utah around 5 p.m. Snopes readers asked us to verify whether the mountain lion was stalking the hiker in a predatory fashion or, as many social media users pointed out, was in fact protecting her cubs from the perceived threat of the hiker. In what one expert called a “hair-raising” experience, a now-viral video recorded in October 2020 captured one Utah man’s experience being followed by a mountain lion - one of the largest predators found in the United States Rocky Mountains - for more than six harrowing minutes.
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