Originally Posted by CommuteCommando

This is largely because humans are rarely in the wilderness alone. When they are, they are usually adult males. Most attacks have been against children, and smaller women. The first attack that had happened in over fifty years, as I recall, was against a child just off Ortega Highway, about twenty to thirty years ago. The kid was badly mauled but survived, since the cat fled when adults came in response to cries.

Attacks are rare, but these things still demand respect.