{"id":251069,"date":"2026-04-04T04:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251069\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:02:10","slug":"california-wildlife-officials-relocate-mountain-lion-found-sleeping-in-merced-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251069\/","title":{"rendered":"California wildlife officials relocate mountain lion found sleeping in Merced tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MERCED, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The California Department of Fish and Wildlife were able to safely relocate a mountain lion spotted sleeping in a tree in Merced.<\/p>\n<p>Calls were made that a mountain lion was spotted sleeping in a tree by a nearby creek in the city of Merced.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were able to successfully tranquilize the mountain lion and transport it to a suitable habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Biologists believe the mountain lion is between the ages of 1-2 years and didn&#8217;t show any signs of aggression.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/offbeat\/13-year-old-snake-stuns-after-giving-birth-without-a-mate-in-rare-repeat-event-animals-reptiles-vertebrates-brazilian-rainbow-boa-asexual-reproduction-parthenogenesis-embryos-fertilization-ronaldo-city-of-portsmouth-college-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">13-year-old snake stuns after giving birth without a mate in rare repeat event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>However, for the safety of the pubic the mountain lion was removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERCED, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The California Department of Fish and Wildlife were able to safely relocate a mountain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-251069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}