{"id":120159,"date":"2025-09-07T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120159\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:30:10","slug":"cyclist-has-close-encounter-with-mountain-lion-in-malibu-park-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120159\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist has close encounter with mountain lion in Malibu park | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the dramatic moment a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mountain-lion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mountain lion<\/a> walks past a man on a bike in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> park.<\/p>\n<p>The close encounter was caught on camera at Carillo State Park in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/malibu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Malibu<\/a> on August 4.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed man then became concerned because the animal was heading in the direction of where his children were camping but fortunately their paths didn\u2019t cross.<\/p>\n<p>California State Parks said there were no injuries related to the encounter but if you do encounter a mountain lion, remain calm and back away slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the dramatic moment a mountain lion walks past a man on a bike in a California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-120159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}