Orphaned mountain lion cubs at Oakland Zoo part of trend in California.
The cubs, now more than 4 months old, hail from a mountain lion population of the Santa Ana mountains that experts say is in danger, probably the most at-risk of local extinction in the country. Because it’s so cut off from other groups, with roadways and development on all sides, the pumas there are extremely genetically isolated, said Justin Dellinger, the statewide lion and wolf researcher and a senior environmental scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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