Park personnel are searching for the large cat that attacked the child during a family camping trip.
A family camping trip took a turn after an 8-year-old child was attacked by a cougar in Washington’s Olympic National Park on Saturday, officials say.
The next morning at around 5:00 a.m., park officials and wildlife experts trained to track cougars were dispatched “to the cougar’s last known point at Lake Angeles,” the release said. The child suffered minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital to be evaluated. The family was escorted back to the trailhead by dispatched park personnel, park officials said.“Due to the extreme nature of this incident, we are closing the Lake Angeles area and several trails in the vicinity ... until further notice,” said Olympic National Park wildlife biologist Tom Kay in the press release.
The park service said cougar attacks on humans are “extraordinarily rare,” but if you encounter one, you should “not run because it could trigger the cougar’s attack instinct.”
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