Multiple Cougars Seen Wandering the Streets of Santiago Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

An approximately one-year-old puma in the streets of Santiago, Chile on March 24, 2020, in search for food as fewer people are outside due to the pandemic. ANDRES PINA / ATON CHILE / AFP via Getty Images A third cougar has been sighted wandering through a residential neighborhood in the Chilean capital of Santiago as millions of the city’s residents are under lockdown measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak. A video shared by the National Zoo of Chile shows the big cat being released at "dusk under strict security measures" darting from an enclosure back into its mountain landscape. The zoo adds that the big cat was captured in a private home on Monday and was in deemed in good enough health to release it the same day, according to a Facebook post . Two other cougars have also been captured in the city as a majority of its six million residents are practicing quarantine and self-isolation measures amid the coronavirus outbreak. As people have moved inside for the last two weeks, wild animals often pushed to urban outskirts have been making their way into city centers. "They sense less noise and are also looking for new places […]

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