Young mountain lion crosses the freeway which will help their survival. LA Times (Los Angeles: living in, law)

[ryanms3030]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

We really need to leave mountain lions alone.

"Wildlife officials pelted the green-eyed big cat with tennis balls and bean bags. They poked him with a long pole. In the end, biologists decided what mountain lion P-22 really needed was a little space."

P-22 vacates home, heads back to Griffith Park, wildlife officials say - LA Times

Surprised the cops didn't shoot him. Glad to see they left him alone and let him move on.

Certainly amazing that so called experts thought allowing news crews and big groups of people around and shooting him with bean bags and tennis balls was the way to get a solitary, stealth, mostly nocturnal animal to leave what it saw as a safe daytime haven

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Freeways pose no real barrier to the large predators. All they need to find is a culvert / creek / wash, or, any other sort of overpass or underpass. They can do sidewalks and shoulders just like we do. Freeways are zero in terms of being wildlife barriers (although dumb deer seem to not realize how to cross safely).

True. So Cal's flood control channels are a freeway system for all kinds of critters.

[CA4Now]

The brother of P-33, known as P-32, has now crossed the 101 freeway, and settled into Simi Hills.

Nearly all young male mountain lions die prematurely because they must either fight a strong, adult male puma or are hit by a vehicle, (National Park Services Ranger) Kate Kuykendall said.
Puma known as P-32 crosses 101 Freeway for new home in Simi Hills - LA Times

[CA4Now]

P-41, an 8-year-old male mountain lion, has been fitted with a radio collar and is being traced and studied while he roams.
Meet the Verdugo Mountains' very own mountain lion: P-41 - LA Times

[BayAreaHillbilly]

Not sure about the Southland but up here these days the big cats are really coming into the developed areas. They know no bounds. We are now in a regime that is the complete opposite of the old cowboy days. We went from bounties, to a normal regulated hunt, to nothing. With nothing, there is population explosion. Extremes are not good situations.

[CA4Now]

Not an easy job for these two.
P-22, P-41, and the future of L.A.'s mountain lions - LA Times

[CA4Now]

Very sad. P-32 was killed while trying to cross I-5.
The 'sad but not surprising death' of a wandering puma known as P-32 - LA Times

[CA4Now]

P-34's death was due to ingestion of rat poison.

"Last December, P-34 made news when she was discovered lounging under a trailer in a Newbury Park mobile home community. A resident photographed the lion ambling along the top of a wall in her backyard.

P-34's was the first puma death conclusively linked to rat poisons since 2004, when scientists confirmed that two siblings died because of exposure to the toxic chemicals. Those lions, P-3 and P-4, spent most of their time in the Simi Hills, north of the 101 Freeway."
Rat poisons claim another unintended victim: the mountain lion known as P-34 - LA Times

[CA4Now]

P-22 is looking a lot better these days.

Griffith Park mountain lion P-22 looking healthy again - LA Times

[CA4Now]

Two new mountain lion female and male kittens, now known as P-46 and P-47, have been discovered in the area.

"The kittens have many challenges ahead of them, including evading other mountain lions, crossing freeways and dealing with exposure to rat poison."
Mountain lion kittens born in Santa Monica Mountains, father still unknown - LA Times