NPS says rat poison killed Calif. mountain lion

摘要

The National Park Service says a dead mountain lion found by a hiker in September was killed by ingesting a form of rat poison, underscoring the difficulty the big cats face surviving in urban Southern California. A necropsy of the juvenile female mountain lion conducted by the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory found multiple compounds of anticoagulant rodenticide, a form of rat poison, in her liver.