A trio of not-so-ferocious-looking furry faces stare back at the cameraman peering inside their den.
Toothless mouths breathe silent roars as the lens probes deeper inside to take footage of the three newborn mountain lion kittens. They are all females.
The cubs’ mother, known as mountain lion P-77, is estimated to be between 5 and 6 years old. She was first captured in 2019 in the Simi Hills, a small region of habitat between the larger Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountain ranges in Southern California.
Since then, biologists of the National Park Service (NPS) have been keeping tabs on the female big cat….