Bad Tranquilizer Shot Kills 125-Pound Mountain Lion In SoCal Parking Lot
TEMECULA, Calif. (CBS/AP) -- A mountain lion that wandered into the parking lot of a Southern California shopping mall died after a tranquilizer dart pierced a lung.
Preliminary necropsy results show the dart missed its mark—the shoulder or rump—and entered the animal's chest, delivering the tranquilizer to lung tissue.
The 125-pound animal stopped breathing as it was being moved.
The lion, a healthy male yearling, was cornered last Friday in a loading dock at The Promenade in Temecula. State Department of Fish and Wildlife wardens arrived and shot the animal.
If the cougar had lived, it would have been released into the wild.
Mountain lion sightings are not uncommon in the Bay Area.
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