His charisma and unusual residence made P-22 an icon - but the mountain lion's days are numbered.
The big cat captured the imagination of famed nature photographer Steve Winter, who set up a camera trap beneath the Hollywood Sign. He waited over a year before P-22 sauntered into the frame."It gave people hope, because they're living in this big urban area, and they have this park they walk into that was actually wild with a California cougar," Mr Winter said. "He became a celebrity in the city of celebrities.
In 2014, camera traps spotted P-22 looking ill and officials hauled him in for treatment. A mugshot of P-22 looking grizzled and bemused quickly went viral, but the cause was no joke. He was found to be full of rat poison and consumed by mange - conditions that kill most mountain lions.The species' habitats have been choked off by California's freeways.
Once, Mr Ordeñana captured a video of P-22 making plaintive mating calls. They would never be answered; the freeways and development surrounding Griffith Park guaranteed he was walled off from any potential females and would never reproduce.His presence among the humans who love him brought about his downfall. At the advanced age of 12, he started spending more time acting erratically in the urban areas around the park.
It was revealed at a press conference the next day that he was unlikely to be released back into the wild.
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