Mountain lions in Los Angeles are so inbred they have L-shaped tails

By Adam Popescu

Courtesy of National Park Service

The mountain lions in Los Angeles’s Santa Monica mountains are so isolated from a entire lot of cats – hemmed in by freeways and metropolis construction – that biologists indulge in lengthy been stupefied they are at high possibility of turning into inbred to the level of sterility. This week, researchers in California documented signs that inbreeding is already severe enough to manifest in the lion’s appearance: three indulge in L-shaped kinks at the quit of their tails. What’s more, more than likely the most males indulge in cryptorchidism, a condition in …