{"id":254787,"date":"2026-01-27T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:01:07","slug":"mountain-lion-roaming-san-franciscos-streets-captured-by-wildlife-officials-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254787\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain lion roaming San Francisco\u2019s streets captured by wildlife officials | San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wildlife officials in San Francisco<\/a> captured a young mountain lion that was spotted roaming the streets of the city.<\/p>\n

Authorities issued a warning to residents late on Monday, saying a mountain lion had been seen walking the streets in the Pacific Heights neighborhood and advised people to slowly back away from the animal if they encountered it.<\/p>\n

They said on Tuesday morning the wild feline had been located, and later managed to capture the animal. The San Francisco Chronicle reported<\/a> the mountain lion had been tranquilized and will be released into the wild.<\/p>\n

The mountain lion was first spotted on Monday morning by a San Francisco<\/a> resident who took a video of the animal and alerted authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so big \u2026 not just a regular cat,\u201d Madrey Hilton told the San Francisco Chronicle. The lion, which \u201cjust looked like it was minding its own business\u201d, scaled a wall and headed into Lafayette Park, she told the newspaper.<\/p>\n

Mountain lion sightings are rare in San Francisco, where coyotes abound in the city\u2019s many parks, but cougars have been spotted wandering city streets before.<\/p>\n

In 2020, a young mountain lion was spotted sleeping in a planter box along a normally busy street and looking at his reflection in the glass of an office tower in downtown San Francisco. The animal was later safely captured and released into the wild.<\/p>\n

Experts say the animals come up along the Pacific Coast from the hills south of the city, but eventually find their way back to the wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wildlife officials in San Francisco captured a young mountain lion that was spotted roaming the streets of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-254787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}