The young cat was captured on security camera footage walking through plazas and parking structures in Oceanside earlier this week
The footage is remarkable — a mountain lion roaming around downtown Oceanside, padding across the plaza on the southside of City Hall just a half-mile from the popular city pier. But it's real. And the mountain lion has been seen in other well-populated spots as well. Oceanside police issued a warning Thursday letting people know that the wild animal was roaming around neighborhoods and businesses.
'From the videos, this appears to be a younger cat, so it could be a dispersing juvenile looking for their own territory,' Senour said. State officials said mountain lion sightings are not unusual in California because half the state is considered the species' habitat. However, the sightings tend to occur more in communities closer to mountain ranges, in a zone biologists call the 'human-wildlife interface,' where developed communities bump up against open space.
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