Celebrity squatter finally leaves
Biologists arent sure exactly when the cougar known as P-22 slipped away from under Jason and Paula Archinacos sleek, multi-level white contemporary in Los Feliz on Tuesday.
About 1 a.m., officials cleared the area and left P-22, who had startled the workers who came upon him in a crawl space, to find his way out. When officials returned a few hours later they could not locate the 6-year-old, 130-pound mountain lion.
About 11:30 a.m., Jeff Sikich, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Services Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, reported that he had used telemetry gear to pick up a ping from P-22s tracking collar in a remote canyon in Griffith Park, about 11/2 miles inside the parks boundaries.
For three years, the animal has ranged the park. Surveillance camera video and data from P-22s GPS tracking collar show that the Los Feliz neighborhood has also been a regular hangout. Lt. Marty Wall of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife speculated that P-22 might have been regularly using the crawl space of the house, which has frequently been vacant...
(photos and video at the link)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-famed-p22-mountain-lion-found-under-los-feliz-home-owner-says-20150413-story.html