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Mountain lion in SoCal study killed by driver on Pacific Coast Highway
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A younger mountain lion that had simply been added to a examine of Southern California cougars was struck by a car and killed on Pacific Coast Freeway.
The National Park Service says the subadult male dubbed P-104 was hit Wednesday morning, simply two weeks after he was captured and fitted with a GPS radio collar within the western portion of the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division, Malibu division, mentioned they acquired a name concerning the lifeless mountain lion simply earlier than 8 a.m. In keeping with the caller, it seemed like P-104 had been run over just a few instances.
Cougars within the coastal vary west of Los Angeles have been studied for 20 years by biologists to find out how they survive in fragmented and urbanized habitat.
P-104 was the twenty fifth mountain lion to be killed by a car because the examine started in 2002.
Editor’s be aware: Featured picture is an unidentified mountain lion, not P-104.