by yiwei | Oct 31, 2013 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
This morning, we learned that 39M, the downtown puma from Santa Cruz, was hit and killed on Highway 17 around Vine Hill Road. When we caught the young male back in May, we recognized that his survival in the coming months would be difficult. After getting his new...
by yiwei | Apr 2, 2013 | puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Last week we visited the final resting places of two of our male lions, 16M and 17M. In both life and death, these two lions embodied the diversity of fates that may befall pumas living in the Santa Cruz Mountains. 17M was a small, 2 year old male when we first caught...
by yiwei | Mar 14, 2013 | puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
This week, using GPS locations from her collar, Paul and Chris F. located 11F’s final resting spot in the hills above Los Gatos, a town named after her ancestors. From what they could see, she seems to have died of natural causes in January, far from roads,...