{"id":434165,"date":"2026-01-28T05:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:19:11","slug":"san-francisco-mountain-lion-captured-at-california-octavia-streets-after-hours-long-standoff-it-will-be-released-into-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434165\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mountain Lion Captured At California & Octavia Streets After ‘Hours-Long Standoff’ \u2014 It Will Be Released Into The Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A young mountain lion was spotted in San Francisco\u2019s Lafayette Park and Pacific Heights neighborhood Monday, causing the City of San Francisco to issue a warning to residents. On Tuesday, it was captured at Octavia and California Streets.<\/p>\n

At around 6:20am Tuesday morning, the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management issued an update that the animal was located and Animal Care & Control and the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife were on the scene. Officials tranquilized the animal around 10:30am and managed to capture it safely.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mountain lion \u2013 a year-old male \u2013 was tranquilized by a biologist from the California Department of Fish & Wildlife and SF Zoo Chief Veterinarian, Dr. Adrian Mutlow after an hours-long standoff,\u201d wrote San Francisco Animal Care & Control on Instagram. \u201cThe lion will be released to more suitable habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Instagram post, the mountain lion was captured after a coordinated effort between SF Animal Care & Control, the SF Police Department, the San Francisco Zoo, and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, with help from the Puma Project.<\/p>\n

The mountain lion was first spotted around 6am Monday morning by SF resident Madrey Hilton on Sacramento and Gough Streets.<\/p>\n

San Franciscans posted videos and photos of the mountain lion roaming around residential areas, and SF Rec & Parks briefly closed Lafayette Park on Monday as a precaution as officials swept the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you see the mountain lion \u2013 do not go near it,\u201d wrote SF Animal Care & Control. \u201cGive it a wide berth, slowly back away \u2013 do not run \u2013 and call Animal Care & Control at 415-554-9400.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a child with you \u2013 pick them up \u2013 and keep dogs on leash. If the mountain lion approaches \u2013 make yourself \u2018big\u2019 wave your arms, shout, throw something, and again, do not run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priscilla Du Preez \/ Unsplash Save A young mountain lion was spotted in San Francisco\u2019s Lafayette Park and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-434165","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\/434165","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=434165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}