Following an unscheduled lavatory break during a school football game, a young Brazilian boy had the shock of his life when he spotted a wild puma in the toilet stall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When David Miguel, nine, pushed open the receptacle door to find a hissing and roaring puma on the other side, his heart “nearly stopped,” and he ran outside to notify his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The incident occurred at the Martha Drummond Fonseca Municipal School in the town of Nova Lima, close to the city of Belo Horizonte in the country’s south-eastern region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was trembling like jelly \u2014 it went and my heart almost stopped,” said little David to local reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rodrigo Almeida, 34, acknowledged that he, too, was taken aback when he realized what the creature was: “I assumed it was going to be an ocelot, a wild dog, or something else.” I fled back as soon as I realized the magnitude of the animal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The school notified the local fire department and military environmental police, who rushed to the scene and used a tranquillizer dart to calm the animal before releasing the young female back into the wild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pumas are the most common large wild terrestrial mammals in the Western Hemisphere, growing up to eight feet long and weighing over 80kg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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