Posted on 02/27/2014 10:58:49 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
A remote camera snapped more than 350 high-quality images of mountain lion P-13 and her kittens as they fed on a mule deer over two nights in Malibu Creek State Park last week.
The cameras were set up to check on the male and female kittens, P-30 and P-28, who biologists haven't seen since they were tagged when they were about three weeks old, said biologist Jeff Sikich with the National Park Service.
The kittens are now 10 months old, and though they have trackers that pinpoint their locations, Sikich said he was interested in how healthy they look.
The kittens appear healthy, "nice and fat," he said.
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Love picture number two. Catitude!
Bookmarked. One in the nest right now.
So lethal, and yet so adorable.
Yeah, and it’s going to be -15 tonite...
I don’t know how the animals survive in this.
“It’s the circle, the circle of life.”
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