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Mountain Lion Captured On Camera Leaping Over 6-Foot Fence

SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) -- A surveillance camera recently captured a mountain lion jumping a fence outside a Santa Cruz home.

The video from August 7 initially shows the mountain lion -- with a monitoring collar visible around it's neck -- prowling around a home on Graham Hill Road when confronted with the wire fence.

RAW: Surveillance Video Captures Mountain Lion Jumping 6-Foot ...

BIG HOPS A mountain lion faced with a six-foot high fence outside a Santa Cruz home is caught on camera easily hopping over the obstacle. More on the big cat's impressive jump: http://cbsloc.al/2aT0FBK

Posted by KPIX CBS San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, August 16, 2016

When it realized it had nowhere else to go, after looking around at its options, the big cat gathers itself and leaps over the fence.

The fence is approximately six feet high.

Last month this same camera filmed another mountain lion on the property.

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