India, March 28 -- Don't run, bend or crouch; if a cougar attacks, fight back with whatever is at hand, even your bare hands

California, the richest and most populous US state, witnessed its first fatal attack by a cougar in two decades on March 23, when 21-year-old Taylen Robert Claude Brooks died and his 18-year-old brother Wyatt Jay Charles Brooks was injured in an attack by the feline, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff's Office.

The two brothers were outdoorsmen and had gone to the woods near the community of Georgetown in the county on the border with Nevada, when they came across a cougar.

They tried to appear larger by raising their hands in the air and shouted at the animal. But it did not retreat. It charged and attack...