The 113-pound lion was tranquilized before it was ultimately returned to the wild, deep in Orange County's canyon country.
The big cat barreled into Irvine around lunchtime, running through a busy commercial center in Irvine and getting stuck inside an office building before eventually being tranquilized and ultimately released back into the wild.
When Dr. Scott Weldy, a local animal hospital owner, arrived, the roughly 2-year-old lion was crouching in some nearby bushes. Mother lions teach their cubs to hunt, but as their young start nearing the 2-year mark, she “kicks them out,” Weldy said. He thinks the lion captured Tuesday was just under 2 years old.
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