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Robert Martinez has captured some sweet wildlife footage since 2012 when he first set up his cameras in the Angeles National Forest, but his latest video really surprised him. It caught a family of four mountain lions roaming through the mountains above Glendora.
Martinez, 41, documented his findings on his Parliament of Owls blog, where he wrote that the family of cougars passed through the canyon last Friday. He also spotted a mountain lion he had been tracking and hadn't seen in the area since six months ago come back through that same night.
"I just want to see these beautiful creatures that roam the mountains when I'm gone and raise awareness, and hopefully protect them, keep their legacy going and keep Prop 117 in place forever, which is the ban on mountain lion hunting in California," Martinez told KABC.
In the past, Martinez has captured on video a mama bear and her cub, and even a mountain lion dragging a dead deer through a trail.
