For the first time, biologists have confirmed that even unborn fetuses are being exposed to rat poisons that can be fatal to full-grown mountain lions.
For the first time, biologists studying the native mountain lion population in the Santa Monica Mountains have found rat poison in the unborn fetuses of a female mountain lion fatally struck by a car earlier this year.struck and killed by a car on Las Virgenes Road between Piuma Road and Mulholland Highway on June 17
But other tests showed that anticoagulant rodenticide compounds were found in her liver and her abdominal fat tissue. The four full-term kittens P-54 was pregnant with also tested positive for the same rat poisons. The finding shows that mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains are not only in danger from vehicles, but also the use of rat poison. Researchers have now documented the presence of rat poison in 39 out of 40 local mountain lions tested, included the four fetuses, according to the NPS.
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