{"id":53622,"date":"2025-11-14T23:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53622\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:07:06","slug":"have-you-seen-this-mountain-lion-stalks-bikers-on-california-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/53622\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Seen This? Mountain lion stalks bikers on California trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAKE FOREST, Cali. \u2014 There is something fascinating about seeing wildlife roaming freely in nature&#8217;s open spaces. One can&#8217;t help but to admire their existence and instincts. Although, a personal encounter with such animals can sometimes lead to an intense situation.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of two mountain bikers on a trail in Lake Forest, California, they came face-to-face with a mountain lion earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter, all captured on video, shows the big cat jumping out from some bushes that the bikers first spotted the lion hiding in.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the two bikers backing away slowly and making loud noises \u2014 as the cougar slowly begins to stalk them along the trail for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/pore\/planyourvisit\/yoursafety_mountainlions.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife experts <\/a>say the best thing individuals can do if they encounter a mountain lion is to stay calm, as well as make themselves appear big and intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s easier said than done \u2014 as is resisting the urge to run; which wildlife officials warn people absolutely not to do during an encounter with a mountain lion.<\/p>\n<p>By those standards, it would appear that the pair did everything right to avoid being attacked.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the cougar following the pair for a short distance before making a lunge at them, but it ultimately ends up running off.<\/p>\n<p>The bikers were able to evade danger and escaped the encounter unharmed, the video shows.<\/p>\n<p>According to local outlet KABC, in Los Angeles, the Nov. 2 encounter took place in Whiting Ranch, which was the same area where a mountain biker was killed by a cougar back in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on Have You Seen This?<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE FOREST, Cali. \u2014 There is something fascinating about seeing wildlife roaming freely in nature&#8217;s open spaces. One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2113,7,9,8,6996,6995,6813,1286,972,2268,100,4201,1726,6997,127,4509,821,4591,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-53622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-animals","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-cars","13":"tag-classifieds","14":"tag-homes","15":"tag-jobs","16":"tag-local","17":"tag-nature","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-radio","20":"tag-recreation","21":"tag-salt-lake","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-television","24":"tag-traffic","25":"tag-utah","26":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53622","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=53622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}