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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
A mountain lion fatally attacked a 21-year-old man on Saturday in El Dorado County, also injuring his younger brother. It was the first time in roughly two decades that a cougar killed a person in ...
The mountain lion king of Griffith Park — a cat known as P-22 — roamed these hills for 10 years. Captured in December 2022, he was euthanized after a team of doctors determined that because of ...
Mountain lions tend to keep to themselves. But they’ve been spotted prowling through neighbors’ yards.