{"id":258953,"date":"2026-04-09T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258953\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:30:08","slug":"rescued-mountain-lion-kitten-living-best-life-at-oakland-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258953\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued Mountain Lion Kitten Living Best Life at Oakland Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oakland Zoo said that the condition of a <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/340223#source\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rescued mountain lion kitten;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;rescued mountain lion kitten&quot;}\" class=\"link \">rescued mountain lion kitten<\/a> has been improving with care by staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage shows the orphaned kitten, named Crimson, playing with a dinosaur toy which helps him \u201clearn to stalk, pounce, and play \u2013 all behaviors we want to see in a developing young puma.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crimson was first rescued by the National Park Service before being brought to Los Angeles Zoo, where he underwent a health check, had multiple daily bottle feeds, and was kept in quarantine with minimal human contact, the zoo <a href=\"https:\/\/newswire.storyful.com\/story\/340223#source\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To continue his rehabilitation, Crimson was then moved to Oakland Zoo where he has been receiving bottle feeds every three hours and socializing with other mountain lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mountain lions need 12-18 months with their mother to learn essential survival skills, Oakland Zoo said. Due to Crimson\u2019s age, he lacks the skills necessary to survive in the wild. Credit: Oakland Zoo via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Zoo said that the condition of a rescued mountain lion kitten has been improving with care by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[111103,28092,36735,42334,143,145,144,12294,114266],"class_list":{"0":"post-258953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-crimson","9":"tag-los-angeles-zoo","10":"tag-mountain-lion","11":"tag-national-park-service","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-headlines","14":"tag-oakland-news","15":"tag-oakland-zoo","16":"tag-orphaned-kitten"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258953","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=258953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}