The discovery of another cougar that roamed in the suburb of
the Chilean capital at night, keeps an eye out for experts who attribute the
phenomenon to the lack of food and the loneliness of the streets due to the
quarantine of the spread of the coronavirus.
The second feline captured in a few weeks, a female, joins
similar cases in other countries of wild animals walking through empty cities,
due to the prevention measures against the Covid-19 pandemic, which is already
close to one million infected.
"We have seen other types of fauna that enter the city
in the news of other countries, for the same factor that since the human is not
there, there is no noise, they dare to explore a little more," Marcelo
Giagnoni told Reuters. , Metropolitan Director of the Agricultural and
Livestock Service (SAG) of Chile.
The Government decreed a curfew in the country to help
reduce the movement of people.
"This is a unique phenomenon that we are all
experiencing," he added, explaining that they have no previous record of
the behavior.
Meanwhile, the images and videos of the cougars have gone
viral on all social media.
The expert commented that in the Chilean case, the
persistent drought that has affected the country and the consequent lack of
food also contributes to bringing animals closer to urban centers.
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