A young, male mountain lion has been discovered in the Santa Monica Mountains — in the same area where an older male puma was recently found dead, federal wildlife officials said.

The juvenile male, dubbed P-61, was captured last week “on the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains,” said Kate Kuykendall, spokeswoman for the National Park Service’s Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

Meet P-61, a juvenile male we captured last week on the eastern end of the mtns. 97 lbs and approx 1.5 years old. pic.twitter.com/RwjGZmVnlh — Santa Monica Mtns (@SantaMonicaMtns) October 25, 2017

“We will be sending in tissue samples to determine how, if at all, he may be related to other lions in the area,” Kuykendall said in a Facebook post.

Along with the introduction of P-61, NPS officials announced the death of another lion — P-27.

The male cougar, believed to be about nine years old, had been the dominant male in the area, Kuykendall said. The NPS had been tracking him since 2013.

“His GPS collar had recently failed, so unfortunately by the time we found him it appeared he had already been dead for at least a month,” she said, adding that due to the decomposition of the remains, the cause of P-27’s demise cannot be determined.

P-27 made a big social media splash in Feb. 2016, when a hiker caught him napping and lounging in the hills of Malibu. Hundreds of thousands of people viewed his lazy afternoon in a Facebook post.

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With P-27 gone, wildlife researchers are eager to examine how the puma power struggle plays out in that part of the mountains.

“It will be interesting to see who takes over (P-27’s) territory,” Kuykendall said.