![]() Among those killed last year was Los Angeles’s beloved P-22, once called the Brad Pitt of mountain lions, who for a decade famously roamed in urban city neighborhoods and underneath the Hollywood sign. “It’s encouraging to see reproduction in our small population of mountain lions, especially after all the mortalities we have documented in the last year,” said Jeff Sikich, the lead field biologist of the NPS mountain lion study, which since 2002 has looked at how the animals survive in a fragmented and urbanized environment.įifteen mountain lions have died in the study area since march 2022, Sikich told the Los Angeles Times, the majority after being hit by vehicles. The kittens, just over three weeks old and known as P-113, P-114 and P-115, are healthy, the NPS said in a statement. ![]() ![]() Biologists found the three cubs last week in what the National Park Service described as a “dense patch of poison oak nestled among large boulders” in between the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain ranges. ![]()
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