A missing Oregon woman who was found dead off a hiking trail near Mount Hood on Monday was likely killed by a cougar,authorities revealed on Tuesday. The incident is the first confirmed fatal wild cougar attack in the state.
An autopsy of 55-year-old Diana Bober’s body determined that her wounds were caused by a large animal. The medical examiner’s office determined that the wounds were consistent with a suspected cougar attack, ruling out the opportunity that Bober was mauled after dying from a separate cause.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said that the Oregon State Police is flying Bober’s DNA samples to a U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service laboratory in Ashland for further analysis.
Brian Wolfer, and Oregon Department Fish and Wildlife watershed manager,said the DNA samples can help identify the genus of the responsible animal, albeit he thinks that there is a slender chance that something else is responsible for the attack.
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Source: inquisitr.com