She has a name — P-80 — and she is the latest mountain lion to join the National Park Service study of pumas that live in and around the Santa Monica Mountains. The park service announced Wednesday that researchers had outfitted P-80 with a GPS radio collar, which will allow them to track her daily movements. The cougar, weighing 82 pounds and thought to be about 6 years old, was captured recently in the central Santa Monica Mountains in the Woolsey fire burn area. AdvertisementResearchers have said that two mountain lions, P-64 and P-74, were probably killed as a result of the Woolsey fire. At the time, ecologists noted that nearly all of the radio-collared mountain lions turned up outside the fire’s burn area.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 30, 2020 12:56 UTC