The Oakland Zoo welcomed a new friend this week—a 4-week-old male mountain lion cub that was rescued thanks to a concerned resident and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The cub was first found and reported by a resident of El Dorado County in Northern California near the Nevada border. Fish and Wildlife crews tried for several days to find the mother using surveillance cameras and ground crews, but not a single other mountain lion was detected in the area, according to an Aug. 7 Oakland Zoo Facebook post.
