Stunning photos of L.A.'s celebrity mountain lion P-22 (2024)

A remote camera captures P-22 in Griffith Park.

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P-22 at 1:09 a.m. on Dec.19, 2016, in Griffith Park.

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Miguel Ordeñana
)

P-22 looking ill, left. When recaptured in mid-December 2015, P-22 appeared to be healthy at right and had recovered from a serious bout with mange. The image on the right was taken before he was sedated.

(National Park Service)

P-22, the mountain lion living in Griffith Park, visited a home in nearby Beachwood Canyon on Jan. 4.

(Leilani Fideler)

Cylin Busby and Damon Ross spotted P-22 outside their Los Feliz home.

(Damon Ross)

A mountain lion seen in Silver Lake. It may have been the big cat known as P-22.

(Ignacio Genzon)

P-22 appears healthy, strong and feeding on the carcass of a mule deer in Griffith Park in December 2014.

(National Park Service)

Shellie Collier, lead volunteer for the National Wildlife Federation, makes her way with a cardboard cutout of P-22 while walking near the location of the future Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills in April.

(Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

Francis Appiah, left, an environmental biologist with the California Department of Transportation, wears a face mask in the likeness of a mountain lion known as P-22 while attending the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing groundbreaking ceremony in Agoura Hills. Spanning over 10 lanes of the 101 Freeway when complete, the crossing will be the largest in the world, the first of its kind in California and a global model for urban wildlife conservation.

(Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

Photo of P-22 taken with a remote camera in Griffith Park.

(Miguel Ordeñana/Natural History Museum)

P-22 in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park in the wee hours of March 22, 2021.

(Miguel Ordeñana / Natural History Museum )

Photo of P-22 taken with a remote camera in Griffith Park.

(Miguel Ordeñana /Natural History Museum)

June 2019 photo of P-22 taken with a remote camera in Griffith Park.

(Miguel Ordeñana / Natural History Museum)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff captured mountain lion P-22 in the backyard of a home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles on Dec. 12.

(Sarah Picchi)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff look at captured mountain lion P-22 in the backyard of a home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles on Dec. 12.

(Sarah Picchi)

In this May 2020 photo, P-22 appears wary of the trail camera.

(Miguel Ordeñana / Natural History Museum)