Not only cars kill mountain lions, with the latest death of a cougar named P-65 caused by mange — possibly brought on by eating rat poison.
Josh Rosenau, conservation advocate with the Sacramento-based Mountain Lion Foundation, said mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains are hemmed in by roads and freeways and die in fatal collisions with vehicles. But the isolation also forces lions to eat smaller mammals that live closer to buildings and rat poison, especially when deer, a preferred mountain lion food, are not present.
Vickers, who studies mountain lions in Riverside, Orange and San Diego counties, said there are far fewer cases of mange in the Los Angeles area population. He theorized that the Santa Monica Mountain area lions may have a genetic defect that makes them prone to mange. In fact, the most famous mountain lion in Los Angeles, P-22, who roams the hills of Griffith Park and was on the cover of the December 2013 issue of. Like P-65, tests revealed diphacinone and chlorophacinone in P-22’s blood.
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