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<\/a>A wildlife camera snapped this photo of an uncollared mountain lion prowling the Hollywood Hills above the lights of Los Angeles.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cNeighbors have constantly told us of their own sightings and their own experiences with seeing a mountain lion,\u201d said Tony Tucci, co-founder of the wildlife advocacy organization Citizens for Los Angeles Wildlife. \u201cI always believed them, and I\u2019m thrilled we have the evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Oct. 26 image was snapped by a wildlife camera placed somewhere on a 17-acre plot that CLAW and the Laurel Canyon Assn. are helping to preserve from development. In 2015, the two groups began an effort to raise $1.6 million for the property\u2019s purchase.<\/p>\n
Tucci says capturing photos of the elusive mountain lion, which does not appear to be tagged, and a variety of other animals \u2014 including a gray fox, bobcat and deer \u2014 further proves the need to protect the abundance of wildlife in the area.<\/p>\n
If the mountain lion is female (you can\u2019t tell from the photo), she could be a potential mate for the famed P-22 mountain lion living in Griffith Park.<\/p>\n
Believed to be the most urban cougar in Southern California, experts say P-22 was probably born in the Santa Monica Mountains and then crossed the 405 and 101 freeways to make Griffith Park his home in 2012.<\/p>\n
Besides P-22, the National Park Service hasn\u2019t tracked any other mountain lion east of the 405 Freeway.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unusual for us to have confirmed sightings in that area,\u201d said Kate Kuykendall of the National Park Service.<\/p>\n
The sighting also may shed new light on the behavior of mountain lions, which are characterized as solitary, Tucci said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we are learning that pumas like P-22 and our uncollared new friend can adapt and coexist with us in urban areas as long as we maintain healthy habitat blocks and corridors,\u201d Tucci said.<\/p>\n
Source of this article: The Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An uncollared mountain lion was caught on camera roaming the Hollywood Hills just after midnight recently \u2014 the first official evidence of a cougar inhabiting a specially preserved parcel of land in Laurel Canyon, wildlife advocates say. \u201cNeighbors have constantly told us of their own sightings and their own experiences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12,27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-los-angeles","category-mountain-lions","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1836"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3482,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1836\/revisions\/3482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacountytrails.org\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}