MARINA, Calif. -- On the same day a mountain lion was seen prowling through the city of Monterey, another cougar was spotted at the Marina Municipal Airport, police said Tuesday.
Early Monday morning, a mountain lion hung out at Marina's airport near the corner of Imjin Road and Reservation Road.
About an hour earlier, a resident saw a cougar strolling through the Cielo Vista area of Monterey, Monterey police Lt. Leslie Sonne said.
The puma sighting was the third in less than two months reported within Monterey city limits. The other two Monterey sightings happened on Aug. 9 at 4:30 p.m. on the 200 block of Glenwood Circle, and on Sept. 8 at 4:30 a.m. on the 1000 block of Harrison.
Marina and Monterey's mountain lion spotters told the California Department of Fish and Game that none of the big cats were showing aggressive behavior.
It was unclear if the Marina cougar was the same big cat that Monterey residents saw.
Mountain lions have the largest geographical range of any land mammal in North America, according to the Bay Area Puma Project. As solitary animals, females need a territory of 80 square miles and males need 200 square miles.
More than half of California is mountain lion habitat, Fish and Game officials said. Within the past century, only 16 people have been attacked and six killed by pumas in California.
Oddly enough, their primary prey, deer, are more likely to kill you. You are 150 times more likely to be killed from hitting a deer with your car than being mauled to death by a puma, the Puma Project said.
While they prefer deer for dinner, cougars also eat hundreds of pets and livestock animals every year. In July, residents in Aromas were upset because a cougar killed and ate their two pet goats. A brown and white goat named Billy was the sole survivor.
"We don't have any kids, so those were our kids essentially," the goats' owner, Keith Rootsaert, said. "I really miss Daisy and Lilly a lot. Billy, by himself, he's a wreck. Every morning he gets up and he's looking for them
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