America's Most Infamous Mountain Lion (P22 Puma Documentary) | Real Wild

[@m.s.1715]

Rest in peace beautiful boy 😔💔💔

[@jessesanders647]

Thank you P22!!!! You have done so MUCH to educate people & a BRILLIANT job at showing people the majesty, grace and adaptability of your species. RIP LEGEND!!😻

[@tamarrajames3590]

It lifts my heart to see a Puma beat the odds, and saddens me that P22 will never pass his genes on. I lived at Los Filez Blvd and North Wilton Place in the mid 70s, and Griffith Park was a short walk away to a different world. Humans need to understand just how badly we have affected the ecosystems we rely on as a species. For far too long we have treated the world as if we can live independent of other life forms, and only now, we see that we can’t. I hope they got the overpass built, given that it is a small price for the health of the species we share this world with. Giving animals back the range they need to find mates and territories is at least a beginning. Thank you for sharing this with us.🖤🇨🇦

[@evanrohde5521]

Never say never 💯

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@evanrohde5521 I live in hope, but man humans mess up a lot of things.🖤🇨🇦

[@D.Gr8t.Wolf.]

Yes! On April 22, 2022 they broke ground, thus commencing the project! Big shoutout & thanks to Wallis Annenberg’s huge donation to making this dream come true! 😻🐿🦨🐇🦫🦌

[@tamarrajames3590]

@@D.Gr8t.Wolf. Awesome!🖤🇨🇦

[@jessesanders647]

Who is to say he did not breed, in fact it is more likely than not, that his genes were passed on. He lived to an ADVANCED age for his species and probably had multiple mates.

[@elybethalcantar7053]

RIP this KING!!!! We love and miss you P-22!!!

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

I’ve had to encounters with pumas in my life. Now 71, my first was when I was 14. We lived in Sierra Vista Az and a rancher had a pet female. When he came to the grocery store, he would chain her outside. Whenever my mother read, she went into a trance. I snuck out of the car and cuddled with the puma. She purred when I scratched her behind the ears. My mother finally looked up and began shrieking at the top of her lungs. The puma looked at me with what I thought was sympathy and I got back in the car. It was worth the lecture. When we came home my Dad took me to inside, asked me what it had been like and then explained the difference between “tame” and wild predators and how to behave. Years later I was walking in the Tucson foothills paying a lot of attention to my environment as there was a severe drought and animals were coming down to the swimming pools to drink. I suddenly saw a very large puma about 3 yards from me. I froze and only liked from under my eyebrows. We stayed like that then he went on his way and I continued my walk. Absolutely amazing experiences i remember as if they were yesterday.

[@fairygodmomma2313]

So believable. Tucson & all of Southern Arizona is magical, the animals too..

[@thishandleisalreadytaken449]

Props to your pops for explaining things to you

[@202slim5]

@Sharon Kaczorowski, Are you familiar with Mary vale it's a neighborhood in sierra Vista

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

@@202slim5 no…I’ve been to Sierra Vista but that was decades ago…I probably wouldn’t recognize it.

[@maryedwards1636]

@202 Slim maryvale is in phoenix:) native here! @sharon love az ive bever seen a wild mountain lion but my neighbors have on drought summers when animals come to the outskirts and drink from pools/man made water pools etc. so awesome!!!!!

[@issamitzi5832]

Hard to believe he’s gone :( So sad.

[@homerj806]

For those who have not heard, P22 was euthanizes due to health problems. He usually stay in Griffith Park but in recent weeks he have been roaming the nearby neighborhoods killing one dog and wounding another. After her was tranquilized, he was found to be underweight, had arthritis, liver disease, parasites, mange, failing heart and had wounds after being hit by a car. He was in poor shape and it would be more humane to put him down. He will be missed.

[@jonathonspiers8397]

More than words can say, more than tears can soothe, P22 has been a symbol, to those of us who love cats, of all “creatures great and small”…. I, personally, would like to see a memorial statue dedicated to this big beautiful cat that had stolen our hearts and souls…

[@carterroach8020]

No I actually wanted to meet him. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ianlucas7679]

So sorry to hear this we as human beings should look after our beautiful wild animals all over the world RIP P22 god bless you

[@kathleengivant-taylor2277]

That is so sad. It really was the most humane thing to do if he was sick and suffering. We wouldn’t want a pet too suffer and I don’t see this as any different

[@moraltony]

RIP P22 Mountain Lion (2010-2022)

[@dianebrown6961]

Build footbridge over highways for animals like Colorado does. It saves lives!!!!!!

[@Uncommonsensetoo]

Being an avid outdoorsman I have come across pretty much every species of animal that roam the South West, except a mountain lion. The only time I saw one was a dying one lying on the road shortly after it had been hit by a car near the Grand Canyon. It was such a sad sight.

[@just4mygrl413]

Pumas are beautiful animals! when they're little, they are so adorable with blue eyes! ❤❤

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

I love puma’s eyes…so beautiful!

[@Dennycrane757]

What a magnificent animal!

[@brianobrian6637]

ALL He wanted was to be left alone! I, like many others, did NOT want this amazing story to end how it did. It brings tears to my eyes knowing it ended so abruptly. I do comend everyone involved in this video + I have read the team caring for this King at his end were superb. The wildlife crossing you were the face of P-22 will benefit not only pumas but many varieties of wild life. We miss you! R.i.p. KING!

[@joaoadaltoranckel4787]

We have a lot of cougars here, in Brazil. They are fantastic animals, they must be preserved.

[@Sunbear2009]

Definitely

[@Chris-construction]

He’s a legend. I’m from the uk and loved this story

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

Have you read or listened to Open Throat?

[@Chris-construction]

@@lolnamelollastname9788 no I haven’t. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

@@Chris-construction Its by Henry Hoke. You can get in book form, Audible or BBC Sounds

[@Chris-construction]

@@lolnamelollastname9788 thank you

[@josephmendoza9523]

There's just something so fascinating and amazing about these beautiful big cats.

[@jasonmanchester5812]

Thank you for this brilliant and beautifully done documentary.

[@LD-pw7oq]

Sad he was hit by vehicle and they had to euthanize him. Our animal kingdom is a treasure to keep for our children's future. I hope we revere it more. RIP P-22 ♥️♥️

[@gerharddeusser9103]

Pumas lived in the americas very, very long before the first humans arrived. They are shy and elusive but you treated them as if the were vicious man eaters. P22 was hit by a car, badly injured and unable to hunt proper game, had no mate, suffered from hunger and mange and when he was desperate enough to try eating dogs, you just killed him instead of taking him into a shelter to provide him with the necessary veterinary care. The richest country on earth, able to spend billions on useless wars acts like the darkest shit hole on earth. Better take care of your domestic problems and finally build at least those wildlife bridges after years and years and years of planning and talking about it. Pumas are intelligent, sentient mammals who are far, far less dangerous to humans than other humans are. Stop your war mongering and start taking care of your own....

[@WhisperKitten]

So beautiful, thank you!

[@makpazon11]

He was caught and taken to a veterinary hospital in December 2022. He is showing signs of aging and minor to medium eye injury. He behaved very well for 10 years, considering he was next to homes. Experts would likely recommend retiring him in a sanctuary. This guy is full of glam.

[@Ali-zd4sz]

RIP they euthanized him

[@moraltony]

Please say a prayer for P22 mountain lion as he has been taken into captivity for care

[@felix-ve8jk]

They just him down. RIP

[@Ali-zd4sz]

Just put him down damn

[@zoobldroid6783]

Cougar, mountain lion, puma. Beautiful.

[@ronhansen4786]

Also Catamount, Painter, Panther, plus many more.

[@JewelsShaman]

Thank You, my Tribes~ for Honoring him!! Beautiful informative (and heartbreaking) documentary Mitakuye Oyasin! 🎁

[@frisk151]

Excellent video... Love what they are doing with a "wildlife corridor"... Hope they find the funds!

[@HelloZuriTV]

I like pumas, they look so cool 👍

[@clicheguevara5282]

If you like Pumas and big cats, head over to the " I_am_puma " channel on KZbin and meet Messi, the Russian Puma. He's a full grown mountain lion who lives inside the house with a Russian couple. He's literally just a big, sweet house cat. ..and he has a sister who lives in the back yard. She's an African cheetah named Gerda.

[@Felis-Concolor]

That cougar has a handicap due to malnutrition as a cub. He’s a quarter of the size he should be. That makes it easier to live with him.

[@Felis-Concolor]

@AttyAmber of course it’s a nice size cat but compare him to the male cougars who regularly reach 220 pounds in their prime and are 9 feet from nose to tail. Some 240+ pound males were caught as well. So 123 pounds is a ginormous size difference. To be honest, the average female cougar is heavier than him in the wild. He definitely has issues but he’s a great pet regardless.

[@msdeyed4800]

Miss you so much P-22z

[@marcelfermer5369]

Rest in peace P-22. You have ignited a very important project which should exist wherever expressways cross thru space that humanity has brazeny stolen from wildlife.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

It grieves me to see them so crowded together…we have Don so much damage to our beautiful home.

[@CynthiaPrice79]

Realistically, there’s room/habitat for single digits of adult male pumas in California, even without people.

[@firecracka94]

@@CynthiaPrice79 not at all, if we didn't damage Cali and it's wildlife there could be so many pumas. Look at Peru with 8 pumas on one kill

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

@@firecracka94 That is true but humans keep moving into lion country with no experience of the wild. They let their pets run free, which is always a bad idea, and leave small children outside without supervision because the adults are ignorant of their surroundings. Tragedies happen and the animals almost always pay.

[@biokosmos]

Pumas are not so dangerous! We have to preserve them and teach people how to live with them

[@JROTCBALL]

RIP P-22, we love you foo!

[@Roger-fs5yo]

Love from Kentucky old putty cat🙏

[@infinixsurya4845]

I love you real wild

[@yc9257]

He never had a chance to be a a fatherbecause the 10 line highway ,but also because P22, after 2025, they will be able to cross the highway, to find a mate, RIP P22

[@tammyclague7574]

PLEASE KEEP SAVING THESE WONDERFUL COUGARS, MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO US TO EVERYONE, I LOVE THEM AND I WILL DO MY PART JUST PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT I CAN DO AND WHERE TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT THE CARE OF THESE MOUNTAIN LIONS 🦁😊😀❤💜☺🦁😊😀❤💜☺🦁😊

[@D.Gr8t.Wolf.]

It’s lovely to see people coming together to enhance these animal’s natural habitat, as well as proactively going after the use of these horrible poisons. There’s hope for humanity yet, even in Cali, 😂.

[@caroleelagrone9729]

I had a very unique experience with a Mt. Lion in Oregon on Onion Mountain! She first made her self known when I was spending my first night In a Teepee! She came to the outside of my Teepee and was purring Very Loud! I thought I was going to die! But She moved on and gave her very loud Incredible call. When my 14yr old daughter started seeing her in the early Morning laid out on a branch of a tree by the creek. I was talked into crossing the road and testing out a loaft in someone's barn. I really didn't want to! The Lion yelled all night Till sun rise!!! I moved make to the Teepee that next am. It turned out the woman was a very angry woman with her husband's son. She never was upset Again. She just was there every am when My daughter caught her bus! She was Very protective!!! People should not be so quick to kill them. Also, I can't say other lion's Will be the same. 🤗

[@IPETGOATII.]

R.I.P P-22

[@lynncombs]

Why did they decide to put him down instead of relocating him to a sanctuary?

[@emilycarrick3570]

@@lynncombs He had multiple serious injuries from being hit by a car, in addition to several old age aliments.

[@veramann]

I live in the LA county. It feels good to see the hiking places where the CA mountain lions roam.

[@myragroenewegen5426]

Immagine getting a call in the middle of the night-- "Who' calls at this hour?" "A cougar. Out in the southwest trap. Gotta take this. They're hard to get a hold of."

[@Ali-zd4sz]

rip to P-22

[@yourekittenme.]

I belong to this Facebook group in TX (not my home state) & they always have such hateful messages about pumas, vowing to kill any they see. They just don’t understand (& it doesn’t seem like they WANT to understand) that what they do to wildlife, they do to themselves. I’ve been in very heated arguments with ignorant people. 😢 I just don’t understand why we must stomp all over nature. Why can we live in harmony like the Native People did?!

[@jjvmedia6012]

Why can't the park authorities and the local government build eco-bridges across the freeways, enabling wildlife crossing? Local residential associations could also get involved.

[@fairygodmomma2313]

@11:00 gotta say, you'd think, right? ..yet my son & friend were attacked around 9/1986 in the Silverado Canyon area in the OC, early midday💧💧. There was an attack to a horse & rider the night before, the park knew and yet said all was clear. Long story short, the lion landed on top of my son first, they looked eye to eye, the lion changed his mind & went for another, younger, ripped his scalp, the boy's father chased the lion off, and two weeks later the boy's running around at a soccer game, saying, 'haha I fought a mountain lion & I won!!' My son & of course the younger boy received a sum of $$ from the county for negligence. They knew. The reason the lion attacked was because new homes in the area encroached on their land, & they were starving... Possibly they wandered to LA ultimately? I grew up in Tujunga in the 50's to '62, and all I knew of was coyotes, rabbits rattlesnakes & peacocks. This documentary has caught my interest, well done, will be quiet now & finish watching. 🎥👍

[@billrife]

Too much talk about the people involved. I am interested in lions and their behavior. Take credit elsewhere. Clickbait.

[@ravneetaujla1749]

RIP P22 and /cougar/Mountain Lion. P22 I just hope you know that legancy and your ambrassdor will help out others mountains lions that are crossing other freeways. I just hope you know that legancy and ambrassdor will help out others cougars/ mountains lions/ pumas in Canada. Just know that your helping out the species in Canada. Believe me you probably have changed it for the better. RIP P22 Legend. You will be dearly missed. 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😥😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@rEdf196]

Cute coug R.I.P

[@evanwindom3265]

To call P22 "America's most infamous mountain lion" is to demonstrate a lack of understanding of the term "infamous". That, or the title of the video is intended as click bait. P22 is very popular, and certainly even famous within the confines of CA. But infamy carries a negative connotation that I don't believe can be rightly applied to this lion. It's important to note that he wasn't a problem, and therefore not "infamous".

[@garyharris4008]

I suggest that human fears that 'mountain lions 'will become 'city lions '

[@Cocinandoconjosie]

The time he was discovered by those cameras he was death. Sad ending for this beautiful creature. We are killing everything that gets on our way because greed must prevail

[@KeystoneFinancialAcademy]

P-22 is no more. Captured and euthanized yesterday as an old, sick, and injured cat. Let's remember him as he was in 2013 in front of that Hollywood sign)). *PS: Good work on taking out a Chihuahua before you went to the big cat retirement home in the sky ;-)

[@lynncombs]

They could have taken him to a sanctuary.

[@yourekittenme.]

@@lynncombsthat was discussed & ruled out as an option because of his health.

[@lizdyel172]

as one of the speakers at his celebration of life said.... that chihuahua must've been talking shit lol

[@baspreenabarton7427]

People need to learn how to share their planet with the wildlife that is here also. It is our duty and responsibility as caretakers of this planet we enjoy. Time to live up to our responsibilities and make corporations live up to them too.

[@duckdrop9158]

How about the fact that P-22 had to cross 2 8 lane freeways to even be in the Griffith Park area.

[@garyharris4008]

This comment is related: why overpass? As suggested, I relate to WA state I-90 Snoqualmie corridor. I suggest underpass!

[@Anonymous-lg5im]

Goodbye, 22.

[@twostop6895]

end of an era with P22's death, I really hope that the plight of the Santa Monica Mountain Lions is solved

[@xx-mx9mj]

Rip ❤

[@dfuss2756]

I got tired of hearing people pat themselves on the back. Did not finish the show. Very disappointing.

[@eliseolopez2790]

Planes are used to Coral wilderness camara traps,the name tells you the intention

[@caroleelagrone9729]

Instead of a bridge why don't you put a Large Concrete tunnel! It does not need to be large enough for a person to walk threw it would be for Mt. LION'S, Bob Cat's, etc. I have seen them used for Bear's at Mammoth Lake!

[@lolnamelollastname9788]

Open Throat brought me here via BBC Sounds. It still doesn't seem like a real story, and yet here I am

[@user-th7od1bj5w]

Verry Nice 👍

[@solariis888]

He’s there not because it’s an island, but because it’s a choke point. A natural funnel or unnatural” depending at how you look at it. He sits there and dinner comes to him. Cats are smart like that.

[@airless818]

When was this recorded?

[@guardianhounds]

put tunnels under the freeways..

[@thomaszaccone3960]

There has to be SOMEWHERE in the US where they can relocate the poor critter to live a safe normal life. He is living on borrowed time with those super highways.

[@mohamedabdelkader8665]

Awesome.

[@_xenomorph8096]

America with such large land area should start forming ton of reserve parks like India does with tigers reserves. Start constructio animal crossing over freeways for god sake

[@xx-mx9mj]

We have a lot national parks and a lot of empty spaces with a bunch of big game and small animals. It’s really not that bad here it’s just where they are it’s really small but if you go to other parts it’s a huge range of area . Mountain lions move far from where they stay normally. Only place that is a real America before the settlers starting killing wolfs and bisons off is Yosemite.

[@xx-mx9mj]

There’s big horn, deer , wild donkeys (invasive), bears, bobcats(lynx), mountain lions(cougars), and multiple types of rattle snakes and other reptiles where I live in riverside county. It’s mostly desert on the map but the more green and mountainous areas / city’s are filled with wild animals.

[@ronhansen4786]

Jaguars even larger than Mountain Lions used to roam freely in California,Arizona,Texas and New Mexico. They started to make a comeback in the Arizona White Mountains but a couple of yahoos loaded with six packs and rifles killed a female Jaguar looking for a place to have her kittens.

[@tammyclague7574]

I LOVE PUMAS,PLEASE PERTECT THESE PRECIOUS BEAUTIFUL COUGARS,,MOUNTAIN LIONS SHOULD BE PERTECTIVE WITH STRONG LAWS AGAINST ANYONE WHO KILLS MOUNTAIN LIONS,THERE IN THE MOUNTAIN SO WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE PEOPLE WHO KILL THESE LOVING CREATURES, THEY ARE WONDERFUL MOTHERS,MORE SO THEN MOTHERS WHO KILL,BEAT ABANDON HUMAN CHILDREN, ITS YOU KIND OF HUMANS WHO ARE THE REAL PREDATORS, GOD BLESS THE ANIMALS AND SAVE THE ABUSED CHILDREN,,,,,,AMEN

[@shanesanko1408]

Make a walking bridge over the freeways going just into the bush not for people to use they'll figure it out

[@drevil3606]

Rip p22

[@n8deezy5136]

R.I.P

[@walkerpeterson1149]

I'm really hoping that nobody no matter what lay a hand on this beautiful cat,re-home him in an area that's not close to LA,I e Ventura, county,San Marcos pass,just don't harm this beautiful spirit,he's just doing what big kitty's do :hunt,dogs do it,cats do it,and especially people hunt, don't be stupid,leave that Cat alone, people are so unintelligent ,put yourself in P22 place,he's a sentient being,with a lot more spiritually than your average pig eating movie star in Hollywood,grow a brain

[@Americalaugher286]

We killed him last night

[@thebevilofbellskitchen]

Tell me they didn’t keep that collar on him

[@markg3025]

Oh my goodness who picked the music?

[@RealTalkLLC]

Next, they will be saying the American Lion AKA Puma is on the verge of extinction; 1.9 million species of animals are extinct due to Dwight Mann and his experiments !!

[@twostop6895]

the lower 48 in the US has a Puma population of over 30,000 Southern California is a bad example, there is plenty of space for Pumas in northern California and more space in other states like Washington Idaho Montana Wyoming Utah Arizona New Mexico North Dakota South Dakota and Texas, all these states have robust Puma populations and they are expending their range into the midwest states like Minnessota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas and Kansas, oh and I forgot to mention Colorado and Nevada as well

[@tammyclague7574]

YES THE PUMA NEEDS TO BE PERTECTIVE MAYBE YOUR HEARTLESS OR EVEN SCARY OF WHAT YOU DONT KNOW

[@ZohreAzarian-y7i]

I had seen P22 i got afraid but he didn't hurt me

[@noelwelch1666]

Quit putting gps collars on wildlife!!! Leave all species the hell alone!!!

[@josephtejeda854]

Good thing he didn’t say a big cougar butt popped up on his screen

[@zoobldroid6783]

Poor animals. We people destroy everything on this planet.

[@ThePreAmpChannel]

Glade to see this one lived fairly long in the wild. Tranquilizing,capturing, huge collars,tissue samples all lead to it becoming more and more familiar with human sent and end up terrorizing residential neighborhoods then shot and killed with depredation permits. Bad for us and them

[@tizzyp793]

Now, there is a new female P-18, who is being monitored. These particular mountain lions have maintained a pure blood line, with few DNA disruptions.Maybe, P-18 is a sister of P-22?

[@hixiegirl]

Why not build some mountain lion bridges over those freeways?

[@GirlScoutC00kiez420]

★★★★★ Excellent

[@eliseolopez2790]

Don't let their carrying tone fool you

[@garyharris4008]

So build a tunnel; like I90!

[@RyanCoomer]

I am a zookeeper in chicago and I regularly feed the hippos day old sausages so they have a taste of their home. I put strings on the sausages and swing them around the hippos they get so mad at me and scream but it's an obsession sometimes the hippos try and break out of their cages but I keep swinging those hotdogs in wide circles over their heads. Luckily my boss doesn't know I do this or my coworkers

[@lennarthagen3638]

And?

[@combativeThinker]

Had me in the first half, lol.

[@brianscheuermann9862]

Someone or some group needs to push the govt to build access tunnels for wildlife. I think Florida has done it. I don't know how successful it was tho

[@janiekcarney5482]

Perhaps they should have relocated him.

[@emilycarrick3570]

He lived to be twelve years old, that's the high end for any mountain lion - Let alone a male! P-22's isolation was his secret to longevity.

[@eliseolopez2790]

Learn from it or kill it?

[@Sunbear2009]

My dream is to research cougars

[@Sunbear2009]

My mom says it's dangerous but idc

[@worksupermodel]

Jerk move to put that collar on him.

[@jebVlogs556]

4:13 this fruit looks Exactly like one seen eaten by Thanos . I hope someone sees this

[@vincenzocanta9783]

Hanno la stessa abitudine dei gatti domestici di marcare il territorio con l'urina? Chissà che puzza, dove passa!

[@Wahid910]

👍

[@Auf_ein_Wort]

but after all - how sad is this, the Rangers and scientists are happy cause there are a few Pumas. How much of them are there before Humans arrive. mhh... before White Humans.... in fact Europeans settle there?!

[@tammyclague7574]

YES MANY WHITE MAN KILLED PUMAS VERY RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING THE MOUNTAIN LIONS

[@VIPK9]

RIP cutie