A young mountain lion was released back into the wild Friday after it was safely captured in San Francisco’s Sunset District.<\/p>\n
The mountain lion in the morning was spotted in yards and on a street. Video also showed the mountain lion on 44th Avenue. Neighbors said the animal moved from one bush to another in front of homes and stayed there.<\/p>\n
Police, animal control and other agencies responded. The street was blocked off and neighbors were told to stay back as officials worked to tranquilize the mountain lion.<\/p>\n
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife said the mountain lion was darted and ran off before the tranquilizer took effect.<\/p>\n
Officials then performed a quick health assessment and determined the animal was a male between 2 and 3 years old and weighed roughly 78 pounds.<\/p>\n
It was a morning that neighbors won’t soon forget.<\/p>\n
“It ran right in front of our house, and then they tranquilized it, and we saw it run out into the street too,” San Francisco resident Alex Grant said.<\/p>\n
“It was wild to see a mountain lion in a big city like this. It’s pretty incredible,” Grant added.<\/p>\n
Another neighbor, Carson Ryan, said he came to the area after seeing the police response.<\/p>\n
“I made my way over here at 10 o’clock. That’s when I saw all the police cars, caution tape, and I hung around and wanted to see what was really a mountain lion in the Outer Sunset, which it was,” Ryan said.<\/p>\n
After the mountain lion was safely captured, Fish and Wildlife officials placed a tracking collar on it and returned it to the wild.<\/p>\n
Officials said they are not sure where the mountain lion came from, but it could have traveled from the Peninsula, where there is habitat.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZara McDonald with the Bay Area Puma Project talked about the recent mountain lion sightings in the Bay Area.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young mountain lion was released back into the wild Friday after it was safely captured in San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-469141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469141","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=469141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}