Puma and Cubs (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Puma and Cubs

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A mountain lion keeps watch while her juvenile cubs feed at a bait sight. The mother, known to scientists as F92, is one of the two known offspring of the only male detected in the Santa Ana Mountains that genetically groups with lions east of Interstate 15. Busy highways and growing urbanization in the area threaten pumas in southern California and have led to their genetic decay, a UC Davis study found.

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