TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Two young brothers are getting used to a new home at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. They’re mountain lions, and just months ago, they were alone in the wild with no mother to care for them.
Moonbead and Pretzel were found near the Washington-Idaho border earlier this year after wildlife officials noticed something was wrong.
“Washington Game and Fish noticed that mom wasn’t coming around, and so they set trail cams out and saw that she hadn’t been there for three days,” said Shawnee Riplog-Peterson, the museum’s curator of mammalogy and ornithology. “That sets off an alarm for them that something happened to her.”…