Cougar Crossing
How Hollywood's Celebrity Cougar Helped Build a Bridge for City Wildlife
Beach Lane Books · Print & ebook · February 2, 2021
Discover the amazing true story of P-22, the wild cougar living in Los Angeles, in this inspiring picture book.
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- Who it’s for
- P-22’s city life brings the challenge of making room for wildlife close to home.
- Themes
- Urban wildlife, Wildlife conservation, Animal habitat connectivity
- Genres
- Big Cats, Protecting the Planet, Animal Welfare
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Discover the amazing true story of P-22, the wild cougar living in Los Angeles, in this inspiring picture book. P-22, the famed “Hollywood Cougar,” was born in a national park near Los Angeles, California. When it was time for him to leave home and stake a claim to his own territory, he embarked on a perilous journey—somehow crossing sixteen lanes of the world’s worst traffic—to make his home in LA’s Griffith Park, overlooking the famed Hollywood sign.
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But Griffith Park is a tiny territory for a mountain lion, and P-22’s life has been filled with struggles. Residents of Los Angeles have embraced this brave cougar as their own and, along with the scientists monitoring P-22, raised money to build a wildlife bridge across Highway 101 to help cougars and other wildlife safely expand their territories and build new homes—ensuring their survival for years to come.
Wildlife in the City
P-22’s city life brings the challenge of making room for wildlife close to home.
Come here for
- A wild cougar facing Los Angeles traffic and tight territory
- The meeting point of city life and wildlife survival
Expect
- A true picture-book account of P-22
- A bridge built to help wildlife cross safely
Where it sits
| Protecting the Planet | 85% |
|---|---|
| Big Cats | 84% |
| Animal Welfare | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Big Cats
- Protecting the Planet
- Animals & Zoology
- Authors
- Meeg Pincus
- Publisher
- Beach Lane Books
- Published
- February 2, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Urban wildlife · Wildlife conservation · Animal habitat connectivity
- Reading lane
- Big Cats