Famous mountain lion P-22 returns to home in Griffith Park after trip to Silver Lake

Native superstar mountain lion P-22 has safely returned to his residence in Griffith Park after an tour to Silver Lake— the farthest south he’d ever ventured.

“We’re comfortable to report he’s made it again to his common stomping grounds in Griffith Park,” Santa Monica Mountains officers stated Thursday.

The Nationwide Park Service has been monitoring P-22 for about 10 years and noticed that he had handed by way of Silver Lake on Tuesday night time, thrilling residents who shared pictures of their mountain lion sightings on social media.

One resident stated she noticed the large cat in her yard. One other captured video of the cougar in somebody’s driveway.

The 12-year-old cougar is not any stranger to touring lengthy distances.

It’s believed that P-22 was born within the Santa Monica Mountains, and that he crossed the 101 and the 405 freeways years in the past to get to Griffith Park.

The mountain lion is typically noticed in city areas close to the park, and has even beforehand been present in a basement in Los Feliz, NPS Santa Monica Public Affairs Officer Ana Beatriz Cholo stated.

However this was the primary time the Park Service has tracked him in Silver Lake, in line with Cholo.

It is rather uncommon for mountain lions to enterprise into neighborhoods, in line with a latest long-term Nationwide Park Service examine.

However the examine did discover that P-22 and one other mountain lion, P-41 within the Verdugo Mountains, have wandered into residential areas greater than different GPS-collared massive cats studied.

Cholo urged anybody who encounters P-22 of their neighborhood to present him house.

“Don’t attempt to get that selfie with him,” Cholo stated.