EssEff is all about multiple mountain lion sighting in the city this week. The Comicle led with the story yesterday including some cool video footage. I you get the text notices from the County about traffic, weather and the like, you know there are mountain lion sightings down here all the time. The last one I got was on Oct. 24th. From the report, it sounds like this young male cougar will be coming back down to our neck of the woods
It was not clear whether the sleek feline was the same animal that created an uproar earlier in the week when one was seen lurking around mansions in the Presidio and Sea Cliff.
Fish and Wildlife officials initially thought Friday that the puma was a female, but Chris Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at UC Santa Cruz and the head of the Puma Project, said it is “a typical young dispersal-age male who takes a wrong turn.”
“We’re pretty sure it’s from the Peninsula because otherwise it would have had to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge or swim across,” he said, “so we’re going to drop it off on the Peninsula, where it is most likely to have come from.”
I've seen deer in the flatlands of B'game on occasion so it's not inconceivable that a mountain lion would come down from Skyline as well. Be on the lookout since this latest guy likes to roam and he's on his way back.
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