Briar, the four to five-week-old mountain lion cub, was found alone in El Dorado County and taken to the Oakland Zoo where he'll stay until he's healthy enough to go to a forever home found for him.
Briar, the four to five-week-old mountain lion cub, was found alone in El Dorado County and taken to the Oakland ZooBriar, a small male mountain lion, is getting used to his new temporary home at the Oakland Zoo.
The four to five-week-old cub was found alone in El Dorado County on Thursday and taken to the zoo on Monday."He's doing great, very playful, very engaged," said Alex Herman, Vice President of veterinary services at the Oakland Zoo Conservation Society of California. "They looked for his mom all weekend, so they held him so he wouldn't get hurt. But put out camera traps all weekend long to see if mom would come back to retrieve him. She did not.
Briar will stay at the Oakland Zoo until he's healthy enough and a forever home is found for him. That will likely be in another facility, Herman said. Since he's so young and lacks survival skills, the zoo says he can't return to the wild. "He's too young to be on his own," Herman said. "Normally, they stay with the mom till they're about a year and a half or two years old. So you can imagine, at four to five weeks, not even four pounds, he would have no ability to survive at all."The Bay Area's last remaining African elephant, Osh, will be moving from the Oakland Zoo to a Tennessee sanctuary in the fall.
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