The Birmingham Zoo plans to open its new Cougar Crossing habitat later in March. The habitat's first resident, an orphaned cougar cub from Montana, arrived at the zoo on Tuesday.

The Birmingham Zoo is the new home of an orphaned cougar from Montana that arrived in the South by FedEx. The Birmingham Zoo worked with FedEx to safely transport the female cougar kitten via plane from Great Falls, Montana to Memphis, Tennessee, where staff from Birmingham picked her up on Feb. 11.

While big cats on a plane may sound like the setup to a bad action movie, the idea became reality when the Birmingham Zoo was mailed a mountain lion last month