'I thought it was somebody's dog that had gotten into the yard, and I was like, 'Hey, get out of here!' Then it turned, and that's when I was like, 'Oh my God! It's a mountain lion!'' Timothy Kerrisk said.
Video footage captured a scary sighting of a mountain lion over the weekend as it watched children riding their bikes in a California neighborhood.
The video, which has been viewed more than 100,000 times, has no sound because"it's just me yelling for the neighbor across the street to come down and grab the kids," Kerrisk said while responding to another user in the comments section."I started yelling at the kids, 'Get inside! Get inside! Get inside!' And it came back towards me, and it was still watching the kids, jumped over the gate right here," Kerrisk told KRON-TV.
Justin Dellinger, a mountain lion researcher with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, toldthat after reviewing Kerrisk's video, the mountain lion appeared"very young." Kerrisk did the right thing by yelling and alerting his neighbors of the animal's presence, but from a behavior standpoint, the big cat didn't seem to have the intention of harming people, Dellinger said.
But San Mateo County residents, where Pacifica is located, have reported sightings in different areas, with some occurring several times throughout the day. Unless there's video footage, it is difficult to determine whether people actually saw a mountain lion or whether sightings truly have increased, Dellinger said.
Mike Watkins of Pacifica was examining the footage on his newly installed security camera on August 29 and saw a mountain lion pacing the steps of his home before hopping over a fence, KABC-TV reported., three nonfatal mountain lion attacks have occurred in 2020. The most recent incident occurred in June at the Blue Sky Ecological Reserve in San Diego County, where a 4-year-old boy was injured.
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