US wildfires’ increasing toll on wildlife
In Sept. 2020, the 7-year-old female mountain lion pictured above was dehydrated and burnt on the bottom of her paw pads. The pain made it unbearable to walk. According to data from a satellite tracking collar and camera footage, seven months later she is chasing deer, mating, and has even travelled hundreds of miles through the San Gabriel Mountain wilderness in southern California, on those once lifeless feet. … She was found at the edge of a Monrovia resident’s backyard pond, where she crawled in search of water during the Bobcat Fire …
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