A mountain lion seen wandering the streets of San Francisco over the weekend was lastly noticed and captured early Tuesday.
The roughly year-old male might be relocated, San Francisco Animal Care and Management mentioned in a Fb put up.
Two animal management officers noticed the mountain lion as they patrolled the Pacific Heights space round 1:30 a.m., prompting an “hours-long standoff,” the company mentioned. They have been joined by San Francisco police and employees from the California Division of Fish and Wildlife and the San Francisco Zoo, who helped to tranquilize the animal, officers mentioned.
San Francisco Animal Management Officers noticed the mountain lion who’d been roaming in Pacific Heights.
(San Francisco Dept. of Animal Care & Management)
The lion had been seen traversing town since at the very least Sunday and doubtless received misplaced whereas dispersing from its mom, the company mentioned.
“We locked eyes for over 5 minutes,” resident Roxanne Clean advised ABC7. “I used to be truly actually honored that the mountain lion didn’t eat me and we simply had this good lengthy gaze into one another’s souls.”
After authorities cornered the mountain lion in a decent space between two house buildings, the operation to take away it turned a spectacle, with neighbors watching from home windows and balconies, the outlet reported.
