The brutality of the animal kingdom has come to Los Angeles. A beloved mountain lion is suspected in the grisly death of a koala named Killarney, who made her home in the Los Angeles Zoo, the Los Angeles Times reported. The koala’s death has not only saddened officials and visitors, but it has sparked a debate about whether the killer “ghost cat” has any place in the city of angels. The Victim Killarney was the oldest koala at the zoo at 14-years-old; the animals live to be 15, so she was quite elderly. The koala was born in Australia and made her home there starting in May 2010. She lived in an open enclosure surrounded by an eight-foot-high wall, and when the mountain...
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