The three kittens -- P-82, P-83 and P-84 -- possibly bring much needed genetic diversity to the mountain lion population in the Santa Monica Mountains.
The faces of the mountain lion cubs born recently in the Santa Monica mountains — with deep blue eyes, curving spots, budding teeth and whiskers — are cuter than their names.
“Gestation on a mountain lion is 90 days, so I circled 90 days on a calendar and waited for that point,” he said.Some three months later, Sikich saw a cluster of points when he looked at mother P-54’s GPS data, which indicated to him the cat had either made a kill or given birth.A biologist holds one of the kittens.
Now, as the only collared adult male cougar living in the Santa Monica Mountains, he seems to have shared his foreign genes with a population in need.“It’s bordered on the south by the Pacific Ocean, of course, and then the three remaining sides by freeways and development,” he said.
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