{"id":433554,"date":"2026-01-27T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433554\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:15:07","slug":"san-francisco-mountain-lion-is-tranquilized-as-officials-work-to-capture-the-cougar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433554\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mountain Lion Is Tranquilized as Officials Work to Capture the Cougar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She said the cats are ending up in the city more commonly because there\u2019s less undisturbed habitat down south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis population is not doing well,\u201d Granados told KQED, adding that the Central Coast mountain lion is currently a candidate for the endangered species list. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is expected to decide whether to place the species on the list permanently next month.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s \u201cso much encroachment around the remaining habitat that there\u2019s no park or protected area that\u2019s big enough to have the full home range size of a mountain lion, which can be anywhere from like 20 square miles up to even 100 square miles,\u201d Granados continued.<\/p>\n<p>Since early Monday, city residents have seen the mountain lion roaming the neighborhood around Lafayette Park, mostly between dusk and dawn hours. One woman alerted animal control after she said she\u2019d had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sanfrancisco\/comments\/1qo3xos\/i_saw_the_sf_mountain_lion_this_morning_when_i\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">staredown with the cat<\/a> in the early hours of Monday morning, a few blocks away in Cow Hollow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly this morning, while getting dropped off by a friend, I witnessed a majestic mountain lion trotting down my block and up the steps to a corridor next to my apartment,\u201d the woman, whose name on Instagram is Roxanne, posted along with a video showing the mountain lion standing atop an apartment stairwell. \u201cIt was HUGE! Must have weighed 100+ pounds, and when on all fours, it was about 2\/3 the height of the compost bin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s Recreation and Park department closed the park temporarily on Monday to conduct a sweep but reopened it in the evening, after finding no signs of a mountain lion.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, city officials reported a sighting close to Pacific Avenue and Octavia Street, and another near the park early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The last known mountain lion sighting in San Francisco was in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>KQED\u2019s Tam Vu contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said the cats are ending up in the city more commonly because there\u2019s less undisturbed habitat down&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-433554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}