There are new and adorably fuzzy kittens in town!
A bobcat gave birth to the four kittens recently -- the mother was captured and collared a day before the Woolsey Fire started in November.
The collared bobcat, named B-362, was in a large backyard in Westlake Village.
The bobcat was found by biologists from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area using VHF radio-telemetry and GPS points. Researchers received permission from the homeowner to access the den.
While the mommy was away from her den, her kittens were weighed, measured, and given a health check by researchers. They were also ear tagged for the purpose of future identification.
B-362 was originally captured in the Hillcrest Open Space, west of Westlake Boulevard, an area in Thousand Oaks owned by the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency (COSCA). It burned in the Woolsey Fire and the mother bobcat had been living in an unburned area nearby.