Mountain lion deaths increasing near Santa Monica Mountains

The apparent cause of her death was rodenticide poisoning-which has killed at least two other mountain lions and multiple coyotes, according to the National Park Service. They have the symptoms of been bitten with an grown-up stack major.

Park officials Friday announced the deaths of three young mountain lions found in the Santa Monica Mountains. The couple of known de lys were referenced here along with society before.

“If you’re a mountain lion in the Santa Monica Mountains, this is just not an easy place to grow up”, said Seth Riley, a wildlife ecologist for the National Park Service.

P-34 found dead near Point Mugu State Park.

Survival rates for adults seem to be reasonably good, but the inability to get out of or into the range has led to inbreeding, low genetic diversity and lions killing other lions. One of these kittens was named P-43 and the other was a sibling that researchers had no previous knowledge about until their bodies were discovered.

“Based on the preliminary results of a necropsy, which showed significant amounts of free blood in her chest cavity and around her heart, it appears that she died as a result of rodenticide poisoning”, according to Ranger Kate Kuykendall.

P-34 had been photographed last December lounging under a trailer in a mobile home park in Newbury Park and walking in a nearby backyard.

For 13 years, researchers with the park service have studied mountain lions that live in the hills of Ventura and Los Angeles counties. P-34’s sibling, P-32, was struck and killed by a auto on the I-5 Freeway in August after venturing out of the Santa Monica Mountains. The two kittens were only three months old.

The two kittens were only three months old and had been consumed by another animal, the Park Service stated.

The biggest threat to lion persistence in the Santa Monica Mountains is the loss and fragmentation of habitat by roads and urban development, according to National Park Service. The objective of the study is to determine how they survive in an increasingly urbanized environment.