A mountain lion tracked by the National Park Service is back in the spotlight after the service says it's likely to blame for killing a leashed dog in California's Hollywood Hills, reports say.
The big cat's presence was first documented in early 2012 by a camera trap set up by the Griffith Park Connectivity Study. Biologists trapped the puma in 2012, fastened on a lightweight radio tracking collar and named him P-22.
P-22 has made headlines across the country several times including once in 2014, when he developed a case of mange, which was successfully treated by researchers,In 2015, his presence under a home a Los Angeles neighborhood adjacent to Griffith Park, became a live news event as local officials tried to get him to leave. When the commotion died down, he left on his own in the early dark hours of the morning. And in 2016, he was suspected of killing a koala at the L.A. Zoo.
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