As dangerous as it is, a man who nearly lost his life while fighting with a lion has narrated how he was able to kill the wild animal with his bare hands.

Travis Kauffman, has shared details of how he was able to kill a mountain lion with his bare hands while out running.

Kauffman, 31, said he had gone out for a hike when he started hearing some sounds and within seconds the lion jumped out from no where and pounced on him.

In an interview with CNN, Kauffman said;

”It was going up towards my face so I threw up my hands to kind of block my face, at which point it grabbed onto my hand and wrist and from there it started to claw at my face and neck.

“And that’s when kind of my fear response turned into more of a fight response.

“Because I’m a recent cat owner, I know that the back claws are pretty dangerous when it comes down to an attack. And I was pretty worried about its claws just sinking into my my stomach and groin area.

“I was able to shift my weight and get a foot on its neck…I stepped on its neck with my right foot and just slowly after a few minutes I thought I would be getting close and then it would start thrashing again and I had a few more scratches that resulted from those thrashes at that point, and I’d say another couple minutes later it finally stopped moving.

Rebecca Ferrell, who works with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, said;

“It’s definitely not something you hear every day.

“We know it sounds hard to believe, but his survival instinct kicked in and he did what he had to do.”

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Yea, but is a cub.

It was a self defence, one most make way for one. It is either him or the cub

Baby lion...well done

Maybe it's not a original lion.

Lion cub? You want to be Samson?

That one na Aba made Lion....e die well

What the op failed to add,The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the puma, mountain lion, panther or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the widest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere,so its not like a regular lion its smaller not even as heavy as an African lioness talkless of a male African lion...

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What the op failed to add,The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the puma, mountain lion, panther or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the widest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere,so its not like a regular lion its smaller not even as heavy as an African lioness talkless of a male African lion...

Thank you. I read this story on BBC and I'm surprised bloopers are calling it Lion