P-22

Intro P-22 was a wild mountain lion who resided in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, on the eastern side of the Santa Monica Mountains. P-22 was first identified in 2012 and was the subject of significant media attention, including numerous books, television programs, toys, and other works of art. P-22 is also known as "Puma 22" or "Hollywood Cat" by the wildlife biologists and experts, and even called as "Legend", "Hero", and "King" by his adoring fans in Los Angeles and worldwide. P-22 was born circa 2010 in the western part of the Santa Monica Mountains. Sometime before 2012, P-22 headed east within the Santa Monica Mountains to Griffith Park, where he settled after crossing two major Los Angeles freeways. His success in evading traffic on these major routes was highlighted in Los Angeles freeways (Interstate 405 and Route 101). The U.S. National Park Service noted that P-22's nine-square-mile Griffith Park habitat (23 km2) is too small for an adult cat and that it was unlikely he would ever find a mate there. P-22 was tranquilized by the experts, Daniel S. Cooper, Miguel Ordeñana, and Erin Boydston, and they put him a radio collar on so he could adapt to make everything in Los Angeles better in a delicate balance of making a wildlife crossing bridge. There's also a P-22 festival that has merchandise, food, fun, arts and crafts, music, and even a P-22 marionette puppet to honor the real P-22 for both humans and animals in Los Angeles. One day, P-22 was sick because of rat poison, so the experts and veterinarians helped him out so there would be no more rat poison for mountain lions. Daniel S. Cooper, Miguel Ordeñana, and Erin Boydston documented mule deer, bobcats, and coyotes crossing via one of the overpass bridges of the Hollywood Freeway in Cahuenga Pass until they started to document P-22. P-22's most favorite food is mule deer. P-22 once ate one of the Los Angeles Zoo's koalas. P-22 was the world's most famous mountain lion in Los Angeles and worldwide.