Lions, Coyotes, & Bears: Part 1 - The Mountain Lion Celebrity
Imperfect Paradise
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:32.1 | This is Imperfect Paradise, the show about hidden worlds and messy realities. I'm your host, Antonia Serejido. On a sunny Friday morning in May, I met up with L.A.'s correspondent Jill Replagal in L.A.'s Griffith Park. I don't know if this is really a trail. This is going to get us up the hill? 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 promenade |
| 1:12.5 | into an extreme outdoor expedition |
| 1:14.2 | is kind of what I love about it. |
| 1:16.4 | It's very much a choose-your-own-adventure experience. |
| 1:19.5 | Okay, this is what I was looking for. |
| 1:23.0 | Cool. |
| 1:23.4 | I feel like this is sort of the boundary |
| 1:25.6 | between urban Griffith Park and wild Griffith Park. |
| 1:30.3 | The observatory is right here. |
| 1:31.6 | There's a huge parking lot. |
| 1:33.5 | And then we're going to walk up here and in like two minutes there's going to be nobody. |
| 1:40.1 | Jill and I wanted to go to Griffith Park because it's a place that exemplifies something very unique about Los Angeles. |
| 1:46.7 | It's a wild city, literally wild. |
| 1:50.6 | According to perhaps the most well-known chronicler of Los Angeles, Mike Davis, it has the longest so-called wild edge of any city in the country. Almost 700 miles of border where suburban homes |
| 2:01.8 | sput up against rugged canyons and hillsides. A major reason I moved back to Southern California |
| 2:08.1 | after nearly a decade in New York is that the everyday relationship with nature is different here. |
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