Los Angeles’ beloved and departed mountain lion is getting a library card.
The Los Angeles Public Library introduced this week that it could provide its patrons a limited-edition library card to honor P-22, the town’s well-known cougar who prowled Griffith Park for greater than a decade earlier than dying in December.
The cardboard options the well-known photograph by Steve Winter of Nationwide Geographic of the cougar wandering the park with the Hollywood signal within the background.
With the particular card, the library additionally hopes to “characteristic the significance of pure areas and biodiversity of wildlife in our shared habitat,” in keeping with its web site.
The special-edition card is out there in any respect L.A. Public Library areas whereas provides final.
P-22, who turned the face of a world marketing campaign to save lots of Southern California’s threatened pumas, was euthanized Dec. 17 due to a number of long-term well being issues and accidents that most likely stemmed from being hit by a automotive.
The cougar was captured and evaluated earlier than his loss of life after he started to exhibit rising indicators of misery, together with a number of assaults on canine and shut encounters with folks strolling in Los Feliz and Silver Lake.
The wild cat was severely underweight and had a cranium fracture, an eye fixed damage, herniated organs and a torn diaphragm, a physician stated. Additionally they found he had coronary heart, kidney and liver illness, a thinning coat and a parasitic an infection.
At a memorial service on the Greek Theatre earlier this month, 1000’s of individuals and dozens of audio system — together with scientists, advocates, politicians and celebrities — confirmed as much as pay tribute to P-22.
“You’ll be remembered because the king of Griffith Park,” stated the DJ and music producer Diplo. “The world has misplaced a powerful creature, and the people of Los Angeles have misplaced their probability to catch a glimpse of you within the wild.”
“He made us extra human, made us join extra to that wild place in ourselves,” stated Beth Pratt, a regional govt director for the Nationwide Wildlife Federation and the organizer of the occasion. “We’re a part of nature, and he reminded us of that.”
Occasions employees writers Laura J. Nelson and James Queally contributed to this report.
