The Oakland Zoo just stepped up and rescued its 27th mountain lion, this one a four- to five-week old cub named Briar, who was found wandering motherless in El Dorado County over the weekend.

I came to like mountain lions while following the life of Los Angeles’ P-22 that made its home in Griffith Park, the middle of LA. This was a solitary animal that normally avoids humans stuck in the middle of one of America’s largest urban sprawls.