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A new podcast from LAist Studios — Lions, Coyotes, & Bears — explores Southern California's complicated relationships with these charismatic predators, and what they say about us. In the first episode, a reporter skeptical of the hype around the famed mountain lion P-22 looks for the real story.These animals are in the headlines all the time. In recent weeks, there were reports about a mountain lion killed on the 405 and an unconfirmed sighting of a mountain lion living in Griffith Park.
Nevertheless, cynical journalist that I am , when my own radio station and this very website chronicled P-22's antics during those years Livestock were easy prey for the big cats. And mountain lions do, on rare occasion, attack people. Later, mountain lions were considered competition for sport hunters, taking down the same deer that hunters wanted to bag.
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