The great cat moves silently through the Griffith Park night, defying the odds by staying alive. It’s amazing that the mountain lion we know as P-22, named that way because he was the 22nd puma identified by Santa Monica Mountains National Park Service biologists, came to this urban-adjacent park. He left his mother in the Topanga State Park in 2012, traveled 20 miles and crossed two freeways to choose his home in an 8-mile square. Other mountain lions roam in regions up to 370 miles square. Brendan Smith, a writer and actor, was inspired to make a documentary about P22, a mountain lion who calls Griffith Park its home, after spending hours in the park walking his dog Django in Los...
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