Puma Profiles: P-104

Male
Initial capture date: March 8, 2022
Deceased

P-104 was a subadult male mountain lion who was hit and killed by a vehicle going northbound on the 33100 block of Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) on the morning of March 23, 2022.

The young mountain lion was captured and fitted with a GPS radio collar just two weeks prior to his death in the western portion of the Santa Monica Mountains. He had crossed PCH several times in the days leading up to his death.

Biologists suspect he had a kill on the beach side of the highway that he kept returning to. Although it has occurred before, it is relatively rare that collared mountain lions have crossed PCH.

P-104 is the 25th mountain lion, and 8th collared study cat, to be killed by a vehicle since the mountain lion study began in 2002. He is the first mountain lion that biologists documented being hit and killed by a car on PCH.

At the time of his capture on March 8, 2022, he weighed 103 pounds.

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