{"id":51404,"date":"2020-09-23T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/video-mountain-lion-swims-across-mcphee-reservoir\/"},"modified":"2020-09-23T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:31:28","slug":"video-mountain-lion-swims-across-mcphee-reservoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/video-mountain-lion-swims-across-mcphee-reservoir\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Mountain lion swims across McPhee Reservoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2a3bc4f0-7564-4456-8a2a-b0ec99e8e065&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" alt=\"A mountain lion was spotted swimming across McPhee Reservoir last weekend, near Dolores.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A mountain lion was spotted swimming across McPhee Reservoir last weekend, near Dolores.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Dan Osby<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A mountain lion was seen on video swimming across McPhee Reservoir last weekend in Southwest Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>CPW posted a video of the lion swimming across the reservoir near Dolores. The video was captured by Tommy Branson of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a rare sight to see,\u201d CPW posted. \u201cThe mountain lion safely made it to shore and continued on his way. Who said cats don\u2019t like water?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CPW wildlife manager Matt Thorpe said mountain lions are \u201ccertainly \u2026 not lovers of water,\u201d but they probably go for a swim more often than we think.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain lions often cross creeks and rivers, but less so large bodies of water, Thorpe said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were certainly surprised, being in the business,\u201d he said. \u201cWho knows what goes through the mind of a wild critter \u2026 but certainly there was something to drive it to swim across a big lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attempts to reach Branson were not successful Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Parks and Wildlife says rare sight was caught on camera last weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,1167,28,280,4259,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-exclude-homepage-video","tag-headlines","tag-mcphee-reservoir","tag-newsletter-sign-up","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51404"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}