The iconic mountain lion known as P-22 — who lived in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park for a decade, became an international celebrity and was a symbol of the need for urban wildlife protection — was euthanized Saturday, California state officials said.
He had lived to be “remarkably old” for a cat in the wild, they said. Recent changes in his behavior indicated he might have been in distress.
P-22’s weakened health may have hindered his ability to evade cars, but if such a collision led to his death, that still represented a failure by humans to better protect wildlife, Pratt said. State officials said they would not investigate the car incident. P-22 will have a post-mortem examination, said Clifford. His body will then be given to the county’s Natural History Museum, where it will be received by Ordeñana, the biologist who discovered him.
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