SAN FRANCISCO — A mountain lion cornered by a game warden near a San Francisco playground and shot with a tranquilizer gun on Friday has been fitted with a GPS collar and is ready to go back into the wild. The animal was spotted earlier in the day amid trees, brush and ivy behind a housing complex in the city’s Diamond Heights neighbourhood. “When I arrived the mountain lion was hunkered down,” Lt. James Ober, a Fish and Wildlife game warden, told the San Francisco Chronicle . By 2 p.m., the mountain lion had been loaded onto a truck, its paws secured with straps and a black mask over its eyes. The animal was turned over to the Santa Cruz Puma Project out of the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Source: National Post November 11, 2017 00:04 UTC