We linked to stories about this great cat frequently enough that its demise was sad news. So this requiem is overdue and quite welcome. We rarely have words with no images, but for P-22 it seems like the way to do it (as is the reference to a domestic cat in the author’s life):
Requiem for a Great Cat
The beloved mountain lion P-22 connected humans to feline mysteries.
The citizens of Los Angeles have not forgotten about P-22, the furtively majestic mountain lion of Griffith Park, who died a week before Christmas, at the age of about twelve. A handsome beast with amber eyes and a white muzzle, P-22 was probably born in the Santa Monica Mountains, the coastal range west of L.A. His father was P-1, the first animal to have been tagged in a National Park Service mountain-lion study that began in 2002. Continue reading
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