'Starving' mountain lion attacks man camping with his family in Wyoming but he fights back

A man used a chainsaw to fight off an apparently starving mountain lion that attacked him during a camping trip in north-western Wyoming with his wife and two toddlers.

Dustin Britton, a 32-year-old mechanic and ex-US marine from Windsor, Colorado, said he was alone cutting firewood about 100ft from his campsite in the Shoshone national forest when he saw the lion staring at him from some bushes.

Britton said he raised his chainsaw and met the lion head-on as it pounced – a collision he described as feeling ...

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