Lions, Coyotes, & Bears Part 1 Redux - The Mountain Lion Celebrity
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This episode first aired on July 24, 2024.
One of Hollywood’s recent celebrities wasn’t a person, but a feline. The famed mountain lion made headlines in Los Angeles and nationwide. He became a household name for making his home in Griffith Park, right in the middle of L.A. But the overwhelming support for P-22 wasn’t enough to save him. LAist Correspondent Jill Replogle looks into P-22’s stardom, people’s obsession with him, and what his story says about our ability to coexist with wildlife in a rapidly changing, increasingly urban world.
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| 0:34.1 | This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm your host, Antonia Serejido. |
| 0:41.8 | On a sunny Friday morning in May, I met up with L.A.'s correspondent Jill Replagal in L.A.'s |
| 0:47.0 | I don't know if this is really a trail. |
| 0:50.8 | This is going to get us up the hill? |
| 0:52.2 | I do have a little bit of a reputation of getting people lost. I'm not going to lie. My husband, I almost didn't get married because of it. Oh my God, really? We went on a hike and I was like, let's go this way. And he's like, I don't think that's right. Griffith Park is one of the most famous parks in Los Angeles. And the fact that Jill has made what I was assuming was going to be a very pleasant, chill |
| 1:13.9 | promenade into an extreme outdoor expedition is kind of what I love about it. |
| 1:18.4 | It's very much a choose-your-own-adventure experience. |
| 1:21.5 | Okay, this is what I was looking for. |
| 1:25.0 | Cool. |
| 1:25.4 | I feel like this is sort of the boundary between urban Griffith Park and Wild Griffith Park. |
| 1:32.3 | The observatory is right here. |
| 1:33.7 | There's a huge parking lot. |
| 1:35.5 | And then we're going to walk up here and in like two minutes there's going to be nobody. |
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