Did you know mountain lions are more related to housecats than lions? It’s true!

But their lives aren’t nearly as easy — especially in the urban wildlands of

Did you know mountain lions are more related to housecats than lions? It’s true!

But their lives aren’t nearly as easy — especially in the urban wildlands of Central California, where cityscape meets a wilderness fragmented by freeways and development.

These puma kittens act just like housecat kittens. You can even hear Mom purr.

Footage courtesy National Park Service.

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The Center for Biological Diversity is a 501c3 nonprofit headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. At the Center, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.

We want those who come after us to inherit a world where the wild is still alive.