Some anxious moments Wednesday after a mother mountain lion and her two cubs were spotted in the Rolling Woods neighborhood near Scotts Valley.
Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputies were called to a home after the momcat left her cubs under a car before jumping a fence.
Brook Knoll Elementary School was briefly locked down until the mother returned and left with her cubs.
The mother is one of the mountain lions tracked by a group called The Santa Cruz Puma Project, which said the mother mountain lion is an animal whose home range is in the Henry Cowell park area.
The project website is at santacruzpumas.org.
