A mountain lion that was section of a National Park Provider research was fatally struck by a vehicle in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains along the same street where by her mother was equally killed.
The adult feminine cougar, dubbed P-54, died Friday on Las Virgenes Road, south of Mulholland Highway, the Santa Monica Mountains Nationwide Recreation Place claimed.
P-54 was outfitted with a radio tracking collar by biologists who are learning how the significant cats dwell in habitat fragmented by city sprawl, obstacles that restrict genetic range and with hazards ranging from poisons to streets and freeways.
The park services explained P-54 was the 29th mountain lion killed by cars considering that 2002 in the review area, which involves the Santa Monica selection, Simi Hills, Santa Susana Mountains, Verdugo Mountains and Griffith Park in Los Angeles.
P-54 was born in January 2017. Her mother, P-23, was killed by a vehicle farther south on Las Virgenes Highway in January 2018.
In May well 2020, P-54 gave birth to a litter that researchers believe that did not endure. Afterwards that calendar year, she gave beginning to two males. A single of them, P-97, was killed two months ago on the Interstate 405 freeway in LA in close proximity to the Getty Center.
