100-Pound Mountain Lion Captured in Orange County

This was a few days ago, but amazing. The local news reports said that the coyote tried to drive off the mountain line, seen at the video. The lion is said to be the same one captured by authorities.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Mountain lion caught in O.C. park will be kept in captivity."

O.C. Parks spokeswoman Marisa O'Neil told the Orange County Register the mountain lion was first spotted July 9, prompting rangers to close the trail and set up a video camera to catch the cat on tape.

Rangers found mountain lion tracks in a nearby creek bed, but after the camera didn't capture any activity and no new tracks were spotted, officials reopened the trail Friday.

But park officials closed the park again Monday and contacted Fish and Game after a video posted online showed a coyote barking at the cat as it crossed the trail.

Mountain lion sightings are not unusual in the park. In 2004, a 120-pound lion killed one bicyclist and mauled another at the park, marking the state's first fatal mountain lion attack in a decade. Authorities shot and killed the cat four days later and later determined through forensic tests it was the animal responsible for both attacks.

Also, "O.C. park reopened after mountain lion is trapped."