One week after Los Angeles bid farewell to its resident celebrity mountain lion, P-22, during a three-hour memorial at the Greek Theatre, two cubs at the Oakland Zoo have become the latest darlings of California's wildlife set.
Since the zoo took in the orphaned and dying cats, more than 2.2 million people have turned to the zoo's social media pages to monitor and track their progress.
Arriving from the Santa Cruz Mountains just a few weeks apart, Holly and Hazel have been treated in the zoo's veterinary intensive care unit for dehydration, malnutrition, severe muscle loss and anemia. Their recovery, said Alex Herman, head of the zoo's veterinary services, has been nothing short of "magical."
