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P-22 (c. 2009/2010 – December 17, 2022) was a wild mountain lion who resided in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, on the eastern side of the Santa Monica Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] P-22 was first identified in 2012 [ 4 ] and was the subject of significant media attention, including numerous books, television programs and other works of art.
P-22's story began a decade ago, when the lone male mountain lion — then a juvenile — set out from his home range in the Santa Monica mountains, crossed the 405 and 101 freeways unscathed, and ...
The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [1] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/ ˈ k uː ɡ ər /, KOO-gər), sometimes called the mountain lion, catamount, puma, or panther is a large small cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world.
It sounds like the plot of a Disney movie: a mountain lion named P-22, trapped from finding a mate by the Los Angeles freeway, becomes famous and inspires the construction of the world’s largest ...
“Mountain lions have the largest home ranges’ of any land mammal in the Americas, spanning anywhere from 30 to 125 square miles in habitats from mountains to swamps,” the U.S. Humane Society ...
Mountain lions tend to keep to themselves. But they’ve been spotted prowling through neighbors’ yards.
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