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Meet L.A.'s New Mountain Lion Kittens
The adorable P-46 and P-47 don’t have an easy road ahead of them.
It’s not easy being a mountain lion in L.A. You’ve got freeways, rat poison, inbreeding, and interspecies competition working against your chances at survival, not to mention reproduction. So it’s impressive when kittens are born.
Serious admiration—and high-pitched squeals—are in order for a new brother-sister duo of mountain lion babies. P-46 and P-47, as they’re now known, respectively, were discovered by National Park Service biologists in the western Santa Monica Mountains in December, after GPS evidence suggested that their mother, P-19, had given birth. This is P-19’s third litter of kittens.