I dunno. Mountain lion would be more logical. The article pictured an african lion, but then said it wasn’t the lion in question.
As a very young kid I still swear to this day that I saw a mountain lion in my back yard in Whitefish Bay (for those of you not familiar its not the habitat you’d find them in. Can still picture the whole thing clearly in my mind. My parents still laugh at me for it...but at least now I know there’s at least a few others out there as nuts as I was then apparently.