That captured everything so well. People who haven't spent time in LA often don't realize how much of the area is undeveloped and designated to stay that way. Griffith Park, where P-22 lived and the memorial took place, is this huge spread right in the middle of the city. The Santa Monica Mountains cut right though the city. The Angeles Forest is a stone's throw from Pasadena.
We're used to urban wildlife in these parts, but it's usually skunks or rattlesnakes or the very occasional deer. Then P-22 showed up, looked around and basically said, "Eh, not the home I went looking for, but I can work with this." And the local humans looked at this huge cat who was just a little out of place, and said, "Awesome new neighbor. Yeah, we know: Don't pet the kitty. Should we leave some water out?" Other cities have stories about seldom-seen creatures that roam the hills, but those are usually cryptids like Bigfoot. In LA, we had a freakin' documented mountain lion. His being here was a fluke, but it led to the construction of a wildlife bridge. It's mostly to help increase genetic diversity among various wildlife populations split by highways - but if another lion takes the bridge and wanders down to Griffith Park, we're not going to be mad about it. --Rose On Sat, Feb 4, 2023, 7:21 AM danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote: > > > https://www.wsj.com/articles/service-for-p-22-mountain-lion-celebration-of-life-tribute-los-angeles-11675469317?st=dbvp33f9d4j46fd&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink > > _____________________________________________________ > Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > dan...@panix.com > [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wnndl+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/wnndl/CAFc2C0ahHnpdxurqB7%3DhsnWqz32-jkkoT5UAWFaqp0ssLn3w0g%40mail.gmail.com.
