I’ll take African Lion for $500 Alex.
This isn’t the first time “African” lions have been spotted in California, one was even shot and killed in the 1870s and many more have been spotted across America since Colonial times. The “escaped lion” from a zoo or circus comments made by “experts” over the years has proven to be nonsense. Some think they may be remnant American Lions left over from the Ice Age which ended 10,000 years ago.