Wow! Years ago I lived on Pt Reyes and once I was driving over to the Oyster Farm and I looked over and saw a mountain lion (cougar, puma, whatever) slinking through the tall dry grass of about the same color on the hillside by the highway. I stopped because I thought maybe it was the grass moving, but it was definitely a big cat sliding through the grass.
Of course, when I reported it, everybody told me I was crazy, except for one old man at the store who told me there were some cougars in the area and he had seen them.
About 15 years later, after I had left the area, the NPS announced that there were indeed mountain lions on Pt. Reyes.
And now California is celebrating the “return” of grey wolves ... are these people crazy or what?