A California mountain lion being tracked by biologists met a violent finish final week on the exact same highway the place her mom was killed 4 years in the past.
A automobile struck and killed the radio-collared feminine cougar generally known as P-54 on Las Virgenes Road within the Santa Monica Mountains on Friday, the National Park Service mentioned on social media.
The announcement famous that P-54 was the twenty ninth mountain lion since 2002 to be killed by a automobile within the scientists’ research space, which incorporates the Santa Monica Mountains, Simi Hills, Santa Susana Mountains, Verdugo Mountains, and Griffith Park. Ten of the cougars killed have had radio collars.
But P-54’s dying was particularly poignant in mild of the dying of her mom, P-23, in 2018. P-23 was struck and killed by a automobile in January of that 12 months “not too far” from the place P-54 died. After her dying, animal advocates mentioned the incident illustrated the necessity for extra wildlife crossings over California’s busy highways.
National Park Service by way of AP
“These large cats aren’t any match for the community of roads, highways, and sprawl that we’ve constructed with little regard for his or her impacts on lions or wildlife connectivity,” Center for Biological Diversity lawyer J.P. Rose informed HuffPost on the time.
