The changeable and macho kittens, accepted as P-46 and P-47, were apparent by esplanade rangers in a limited area, according to a account from the National Esplanade Service.
The kittens are an important indicator that admitting massive development in the area, abundance lions abide to reproduce, Jeff Sikich, a biologist for Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Breadth said in a statement.
“These kittens accept abounding challenges advanced of them, from artifice added abundance lions, to bridge freeways, to ambidextrous with acknowledgment to rat poison," Sikich said in a statement.
Biologists built-in tracking accessories on the kittens, and accept been ecology their mother, P-19, back 2010. Biologists are currently testing DNA to analyze whether the cubs are the baby of their mother’s father, P-12.
According to the statement, inbreeding is a massive blackmail to abundance bobcat populations, which are about trapped by development “on an island of habitat.”
Mountain lions, like added animals in the area, are abnormally accessible populations in allotment due to abode fragmentation.
“A proposed wildlife bridge over the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills would affix ample swaths of accustomed acreage from the Santa Monica Mountains to the Sierra Madres,” the National Esplanade Service said in a statement.
The National Esplanade Service has been belief abundance lions in the breadth back 2002.
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