A new female mountain lion has been discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area by park staff, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times today. The mountain lion, known as P-13 (short for Puma 13) was captured, given a radio tracking collar, and released. She is estimated to be around one year old. The L.A. Times article said that DNA samples were also taken, to trace P-13′s lineage. Â
Finding out which lions P-13 is related to, will give important information to biologists about the viability of the 153,000-acre Santa Monica Mountains ecosystem. For the L.A. Times story, by Nicole Santa Cruz, go to: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mountain-lion18-2009aug18,0,3726475.story
I am so thrilled that there are mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains, in and around the Conejo Valley, but I sure don’t want to run into one when I am hiking!
Posted by Janna Orkney. For reference, I copied an email I sent out on March 24, prior to the start of the Conejo Post, and have it posted below.Â
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 A mountain lion has not been known to cross the 101 freeway in Agoura, that is until last February 24th! A lion, wearing a tracking collar, crossed at 1 AM at Liberty Canyon, probably going through the underpass there. This lion is known as P-12 (P for puma) and may then have tangled with P-1, the mountain lion that the National Park Service has called the Lion King up until now, because it has won fights with other lions over the years and killed the losers. However, Monday, March 16, P-1′s bloody tracking collar was found by ranch hands in Hidden Valley. Obviously, there was a fight, but P-1 has not been found, and is, of course, not wearing a collar any more. Is P-1 still alive? Is the younger P-12 now Lion King? To read the full story from The Daily News, go to http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8545/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=dsPN9hSm |
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