Looks like there’s a new mountain lion in Griffith Park. Let’s try not to kill him

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P-22 was weakened by rat poison and a presumed car strike. We can do better by his successor.

There was no doubt about it. The hulking blond furry animal on a tree trunk illuminated by the headlights of a car in a parking lot east of Barham Boulevard on the edge of Griffith Park last week was a mountain lion. Seriously? In Los Angeles, the beloved mountain lion named P-22 had lived for a decade in Griffith Park. But he was an aberration.

“Regardless, it’s a tough trek,” Sikich says of the journey to Griffith Park. Will he stay? Male mountain lions, territorial and looking for mates, have huge home ranges, averaging 150 square miles, says Sikich. The cat who would be collared and numbered P-22 was about 2 or 3 years old when Sikich captured him in Griffith Park in 2012. The park is a puny nine square miles and offered P-22 no mating opportunities. But it was all his.

 

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