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A woman in California has been a hero after off a mountain lion that was away her five-year-old son. Her maternal instincts in as she dragged her little boy from the jaws of the big cat. She off the wild animal with her bare fists in the garden of her house on Thursday morning. Her son had been in the garden when the lion pounced. The boy bites and lacerations to his head and torso, but is now in a stable condition in a local hospital. He is to a full recovery. Patrick Foy, a spokesperson from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, said: "The true hero of this story is his mom because she absolutely her son's life."

Officials that the mountain lion was a juvenile and was less than a year old. They said the attack probably because the creature was young and was its hunting skills. They a lion near the boy's home that was acting in an "aggressive" nature. The officials later : "Wildlife forensics scientists samples from underneath the claws of the suspect lion carcass and isolated traces of human tissue and blood with a DNA profile that the young victim." They : "Results were conclusive that it was the attacking lion that was shot by the wildlife officer on scene." Another mountain lion was at the scene. It was shot with a non-lethal tranquilizer and .