A mountain lion seen wandering the streets of San Francisco over the weekend was lastly noticed and captured early Tuesday.
The roughly year-old male will likely be relocated, San Francisco Animal Care and Management stated in a Fb put up.
Two animal management officers noticed the mountain lion as they patrolled the Pacific Heights space round 1:30 a.m., prompting an “hours-long standoff,” the company stated. They had been joined by San Francisco police and workers from the California Division of Fish and Wildlife and the San Francisco Zoo, who helped to tranquilize the animal, officers stated.
San Francisco Animal Management Officers noticed the mountain lion who’d been roaming in Pacific Heights.
(San Francisco Dept. of Animal Care & Management)
The lion had been seen traversing town since a minimum of Sunday and doubtless received misplaced whereas dispersing from its mom, the company stated.
“We locked eyes for over 5 minutes,” resident Roxanne Clean instructed ABC7. “I used to be really actually honored that the mountain lion didn’t eat me and we simply had this good lengthy gaze into one another’s souls.”
After authorities cornered the mountain lion in a decent space between two residence buildings, the operation to take away it grew to become a spectacle, with neighbors watching from home windows and balconies, the outlet reported.
