He grow to renown after being papped in front of the Hollywood sign , but the catamount snappily known as P-22 might not have won any young fans following his latest feat in downtown Los Angeles . It come along that P-22 isthe prime suspectin a grisly crime to have taken position inLos Angeles Zooon March 3 .
Zookeepers started study only to retrieve that one of the zoo ’s marsupials , a koalaby the name ofKillarney , was missing from her enclosure . Not far from her batting cage , the keeper get hold a suspicious tussock of hair , and following the pathological trail eventually stumbled upon the mauled remains of the poor Australian mammal . Baffled by what could be the grounds , the stave turned to the series of remote photographic camera traps set up around the zoo , and homed in on their perpetrator .
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While the number of the putting to death was not in reality caught on camera , the keeper notice that P-22 was the likely perp , as he was recorded pinch around the grounds during the fateful nighttime . Not only that , but it seems he might even have spent clock time scoping out the zoo as he was also seen lurch around the night before . “ The grounds is circumstantial . We do n’t have any video of it submit the koala . We ca n’t say 100 percent , ” John Lewis , the director of L.A. Zootold The L.A Times .
How he ’s been perchance oversee to get in and out of the menagerie is not lie with , but it would seem he must have leap a 2.5 - meter ( 8 - foot ) fence to get in before take up the 14 - yr - older marsupial . unluckily for the koala , her habit of sit around on the earth at night might not have done her any favors .
For now , the other 10 koalas at the menagerie are being kept indoors at night for fear of a repeat attack , while P-22 remains at enceinte in the 16 square kilometers ( 6 square miles ) Griffiths Park adjacent to the menagerie where he has made his home .
