Remote camera catches baby mountain lions feeding
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT This Wednesday Feb.19, 2014 photo released by the National Park Service shows pictures taken from a remote camera in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that recently captured photos of a mountain lion identified as P-13 and her 10-month-old kittens, P-28 and P-30, feeding on a kill in Malibu Creek State Park, Calif. The three of them spent two nights sharing their meal of mule deer. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT This Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 photo released by the National Park Service shows pictures taken by a remote camera in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that recently captured photos of a mountain lion identified as P-13 and her 10-month-old kittens, P-28 and P-30, feeding on a kill in Malibu Creek State Park, Calif. The three of them spent two nights sharing their meal of mule deer. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT This Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 photo released by the National Park Service shows pictures taken from a remote camera in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that recently captured photos of a mountain lion identified as P-13 and her 10-month-old kittens, P-28 and P-30, feeding on a kill in Malibu Creek State Park, Calif. The three of them spent two nights sharing their meal of mule deer. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - This Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 photo released by the National Park Service shows pictures taken by a remote camera in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that recently captured photos of a mountain lion identified as P-13 and her 10-month-old kittens, P-28 and P-30, feeding on a kill in Malibu Creek State Park, Calif. The three of them spent two nights sharing their meal of mule deer. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
EDITORS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT - This Thursday Feb. 20, 2014 photo released by the National Park Service shows pictures from a remote camera in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that recently captured photos of a mountain lion identified as P-13 and her 10-month-old kittens, P-28 and P-30, feeding on a kill in Malibu Creek State Park, Calif. The three of them spent two nights sharing their meal of mule deer. (AP Photo/National Park Service)
LOS ANGELES — A mountain lion and her kittens having a late-night snack were recorded via a remote camera in a Southern California wilderness park.
The Los Angeles Times reports more than 350 high-quality images were snapped as the three cats fed on a mule deer over two nights in Malibu Creek State Park last week.
Biologist Jeff Sikich with the National Park Service says the cameras were set up to check on the male and female kittens, P-30 and P-28, who biologists haven’t seen since they were tagged when they were a few weeks old.
The kittens are now 10 months old and Sikich says they appear healthy.
The park service has captured and collared more than 30 cougars in the Santa Monica Mountains during a study started in 2002.
