The Olympia National Forest has suffered its first fatality involving an attack by a mountain goat which was one of eight aggressive goats that were being monitored for a number of years in the 300 goat herd.
The male hiker defended his two female companions but in attempting to leave after having successfully confronted the aggressive goat he may have turned his back to walk away rather than backing up while facing the goat.
Although an experienced hiker, he would not have known that there were eight aggressive goats who were being treated by the rangers with bean bag guns and noise makers but were apparently not responding well to their ongoing therapy. Firearms are not permitted in National Parks. Hikers are not given notice of aggressive mountain goats.
On-Edit: Nope. Sorry. This has nothing to do with prion diseases in goat brains. I've no idea if Alzheimer's Disease is prion induced or not. If it is, we are lucky its so slow as opposed to other species wherein it seems to progress faster. This is solely about a fatal goat attack on a recreational hiker in the Pacific Northwest.
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