After P-22's death Saturday, a congressman called him a “beloved mascot' and a biologist described him as an “iconic ambassador for wildlife.”
For a decade, he was perhaps L.A.’s wildest and most elusive resident. So when word spread Saturday that the mountain lion P-22 was gone, his city swelled with sadness and admiration.
“Although I wished so desperately he could be returned to the wild or live out his days in a sanctuary, the decision to euthanize our beloved P-22 is the right one,” wrote Beth Pratt, a National Wildlife Federation official who had become one of the mountain lion’s most vocal advocates. “With these health issues, there could be no peaceful retirement, only some managed-care existence where we prolonged his suffering — not for his benefit but for ours.”Gov.
“We loved him,” said Wayne V., a jazz musician and regular hiker in the park, who preferred not to give his last name. “It was not just him but the idea that he was up here. That will be missed. Bless his heart.” Luis Caballero of Montebello rode his bicycle through the park with his Pomeranian-Shih Tzu mix, Rex, in his backpack. He recalled attending the fourth annual P-22 Day Festival in October in the park to promote efforts to protect the endangered species in Southern California.
Winter and his crew set up several cameras, remotely triggered by infrared beams and secured in locked steel boxes. It took 11 months to nab a photo of P-22. The shot shows the puma, standing hearty and regal atop a brown patch of earth that seems to float above the lights of L.A. The photo ran in October 2013 on Page 1 of The Times, making the mountain lion famous. Another Winter photo, taken four months later with the lighted Hollywood sign as a backdrop, cemented P-22’s mystique.
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