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Video: Mountain Lion Seen Stalking Little Kids In Broad Daylight In Pacifica
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| 9-21-20
| JAY BARMANN
Posted on 09/22/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT by SJackson
Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion possibly a juvenile crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
The big cat can be seen lying at the end of the resident's walkway, peering between the slats of a picket fence gate. Upon hearing something from the doorway of the house (the video has no sound), the cat looks back, gets up, and then jumps over the fence in a different direction, and ends up hiding underneath a car just like a house cat!
The uploader of the video, identified as Timothy Kerrisk, says this was shot on Linda Mar Boulevard in Pacifica and he says the audio was removed because it was "just me yelling for the neighbor across the street to come down and grab the kids."
I'm no mountain lion expert, but perhaps someone who is can identify the approximate age of this guy or gal by the cat's size. It looks young and small.
And there's no confirmation, obviously, that it wanted to prey on the kids, but it was watching them.
A juvenile male mountain lion who went wandering through San Francisco after perhaps recently leaving his mother's care on the Peninsula made some headlines in June after being spotted in multiple city neighborhoods before being captured. The cat was credited with being the likely culprit in the killing of three marsupials at the SF Zoo the week prior to these sightings.
That mountain lion, estimated to be between 12 and 18 months old, was released back into the wild on the Peninsula, only to be found dead by the side of Highway 1 in Pacifica a couple of weeks later.
Experts at the time said that young male mountain lions often meet these tragic ends because they tend to wander a bit aimlessly while they're seeking out their own territory.
These North American cougars, which are part of the genus Puma, are not frequently spotted by people despite their presence in the Bay Area, because they often don't make their presence too obvious in heavily populated areas. This curious cat seen in daylight hours was a rarity this interactive map from the Bay Area Puma Project shows very few verified cougar sightings in the Pacifica area at any hour of the day, let alone in broad in daylight.
Related: Young Mountain Lion Spotted in Russian Hill and Embarcadero This Week Captured Near Oracle Park
TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: children; lion; mountainlion
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posted on
09/22/2020 11:47:26 AM PDT
by
SJackson
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Video at source. The big cat is a little cat, but still dangerous.
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posted on
09/22/2020 11:48:34 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
To: SJackson
Lions and tigers and bears!
Oh my!
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posted on
09/22/2020 11:51:02 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
To: SJackson
Fire must have shove him out of his habitat
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posted on
09/22/2020 11:51:15 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
('Calling a thing by its right name is the beginning of wisdom.')
To: SJackson
Things that make you stop and think
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posted on
09/22/2020 11:51:43 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(american by birth and choice, I love this country!)
To: blueunicorn6
Locally, in my relatively urban neighborhood that as recently as last year was plagued with an abundance of deer. Some of the does are likely second generation in the neighborhood. Early this year there were 4 fawns most mornings. Our neighborhood is their home.
They are now all gone. Not a single deer. Also, three cats and one small dog ar missing
Coyotes have come. Unbelievable but that seems to be what eliminated the deer and the cats and the dog
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:00:26 PM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, oh, my, what a wonderful day)
To: SJackson
I believe California voters decided to forbid the hunting of mountain lions. Elections have consequences.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:00:50 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: hanamizu
Mountain lion stalking little kids. Sounds like he should run for President.
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:12:59 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: bert
Must not have many deer.
We have plenty in our suburban sprawl despite having coyotes increase over the last 3 decades.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:20:50 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
To: ifinnegan
Come on, what’d you expect?
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:21:13 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I)
To: SJackson
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:21:23 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: SMARTY
Fire must have shove him out of his habitat
It's habitat is wherever it can find enough food and places to rest. This cat is finding those things in the suburbs.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:30:40 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: SJackson
The video does not show evidence to defend the title.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:34:40 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: hanamizu
I believe California voters decided to forbid the hunting of mountain lions. Then the state creates a man made drought and sets the forests on fire.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:42:17 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: bert
I live in a rural area-nearest “town” is 18 miles away-there is no hunting on less than 10 acres, and there used to be very few mountain lions-so the deer were overpopulating until more mountain lions from further west established territory here-now the deer population is at healthy levels and there are still enough small game animals for the coyotes.
We are more watchful when hiking in the woods, and there are sturdy shelters for kids to wait on the school bus-but people who move here from the city still let their pet cats and dogs run loose, providing nice take-out for the mountain lions and the coyotes-they don’t bother livestock-the pets are easier to catch...
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:46:17 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: marktwain
40 years ago I lived on Pt Reyes. One day I was driving along the road that went along the beach and I looked up and saw a very large mountain lion running through the grass on the east (mainland) side of the road. I called Fish and Game and they said I was imagining things ...no big cat had been seen there for decades.
Guess what? Now theyre all over the place.
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posted on
09/22/2020 12:47:01 PM PDT
by
livius
To: livius
40 years ago I lived on Pt Reyes. One day I was driving along the road that went along the beach and I looked up and saw a very large mountain lion running through the grass on the east (mainland) side of the road. I called Fish and Game and they said I was imagining things ...no big cat had been seen there for decades.Some years ago, people had been talking about there being mountain lions in the caves around North Kansas City. The MO Dept of Conservation said people were crazy until a young mountain lion was killed by a car, crossing I-29 near the Worlds of Fun amusement park.
Mark
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posted on
09/22/2020 2:54:07 PM PDT
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: MarkL
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posted on
09/22/2020 3:02:54 PM PDT
by
livius
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