P-22, who has been euthanized due to severe injuries, was thought to be about 12 years old.
The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save California’s threatened puma population, was “compassionately euthanized” Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife’s director, because of the serious injuries he suffered earlier this week.P-22 at 1:09 a.m. on Dec.19, 2016, in Griffith Park.
P-22 appears healthy, strong and feeding on the carcass of a mule deer in Griffith Park in December 2014. Francis Appiah, left, an environmental biologist with the California Department of Transportation, wears a face mask in the likeness of a mountain lion known as P-22 while attending the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing groundbreaking ceremony in Agoura Hills. Spanning over 10 lanes of the 101 Freeway when complete, the crossing will be the largest in the world, the first of its kind in California and a global model for urban wildlife conservation.
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