New mountain lion added to Southern California study
The National Park Service says it’s added a new mountain lion to a long-term study of the big cats in Southern California.
![This Nov. 11, 2019, photo released by the National Park Service shows female mountain lion P-77 after she was photographed by a remote camera by National Park Service in the Simi Hills, northwest of Los Angeles. [Photo: AP]](https://p3crires.cri.cn/01dcri/images/zhycms_chinaplus/20191126/40df98bc-a242-4fb4-843b-f837be766213.jpg?x-oss-process=image/resize,w_650)
This Nov. 11, 2019, photo released by the National Park Service shows female mountain lion P-77 after she was photographed by a remote camera by National Park Service in the Simi Hills, northwest of Los Angeles. [Photo: AP]
Officials announced Monday that the lion dubbed P-77 was captured, outfitted with a tracking collar and released where it was found in the Simi Hills northwest of Los Angeles.
P-77 is a female, estimated to be about two years old.
Biologists are studying lions in and around the Santa Monica Mountains to determine how they survive in urbanized, fragmented habitat.
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