Los Angeles' famous mountain lion P-22 had kidney disease, infections and other chronic conditions before he was captured and euthanized following a vehicle strike.
The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California’s threatened pumas, was euthanized Saturday.
One of those poisons, diphacinone, was also detected in P-22’s blood after his capture, which could mean he had been recently exposed, officials said. P-22 was also exposed to this type of poison in 2014, when National Park Service researchers captured andIt’s unclear how P-22 was exposed to bromethalin, another poison that was found in his body fat, but biologists suspect it could have been from an animal that he ate.
P-22, the most famous mountain lion in California, was born in the Santa Monica Mountains and made his home in Griffith Park, surrounded by residential neighborhoods, after he crossed the 405 and 101 freeways. He often passed through streets and yards, showing up on doorbell cameras with his iconic radio collar.
National Park Service researchers track the movement of multiple lions across the region as part of an ongoing big cat study, but P-22 often came the closest to humans.after he killed a leashed dogAn anonymous caller had reported a vehicle collision with a mountain lion a few blocks south of Griffith Park, and P-22’s radio collar placed him nearby, officials said. He was found injured in a Los Feliz backyard and appeared anemic.
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