{"id":2177194,"date":"2024-08-21T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2177194"},"modified":"2024-08-17T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T08:44:13","slug":"video-shows-family-of-four-mountain-lions-hiking-along-california-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/video-shows-family-of-four-mountain-lions-hiking-along-california-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows family of four mountain lions hiking along California trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A family of mountain lions \u2013 possibly, or maybe they were just close friends \u2013 were caught on camera trotting along a hiking trail Monday morning at the Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park in California.<\/p>\n<p>Whether they were actually a family or not, it\u2019s very unusual to see such a large group of mountain lions. It\u2019s actually fairly rare to spot a single mountain lion \u2013 it&#8217;s estimated that there are about 4,500 mountain lions across the state of California, according to the UC Davis California Mountain Lion Project.<\/p>\n<p>The video was shot by runner Davor Desancic, who spotted them where the Courdet Trail meets the Ridge Line Trail at around 6:15am. Desancic said he didn&#8217;t hear the mountain lions \u2013 he just suddenly saw them, about 500 yards away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=15184157\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Desancic told 7News that he thought the group looked like three young mountain lions and their mother.<\/p>\n<p>Desancic didn\u2019t feel any sense of threat, and another user of the trail interviewed by the local new station was similarly more fascinated that afraid:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that it is awesome that there is this kind of wildlife thriving in the Bay,\u201d said a hiker called Danny. \u201cThey&#8217;re usually not dangerous if you stay away from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not everybody was quite so laid back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019d been the one taking that video, I definitely would have been like, \u2018Okay, that&#8217;s a little scary there,\u201d said a hiker called Camille. \u201cI think it was kind of trippy because we just hiked that trail so kind of seeing where we had just been and then seeing the lions, that was kind of cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advnture.com\/news\/mountain-lion-family-seen-on-east-bay-trail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> by Dave Golder was first published by Advnture on 14 August 2024. 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Whether they were actually a family or not, it\u2019s very unusual to see such a large group of mountain lions. 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