Mountain lion kills deer on camera.

We recently captured this rare footage of a mountain lion killing a deer fawn in front of one of our remote cameras. Notice that the puma is holding the neck of the fawn and the fawn occasionally tries to wriggle free. This appears to be the strategy by which pumas...

Hollywood Puma and Rat Poison

You may remember the beautiful National Geographic photo of a male puma, P-22, who lives in Griffith Park.  His territory is very close to humans, but, as far as we know, he’s never had a problem with that.  That is, until now. It turns out that P-22 has never...

Why’s that puma snarling at the camera?

This week’s blog was co-written by Sean McCain  (one of our field techs) Ever wonder how animals communicate using scent? Enter the flehmen response. The flehmen response is a communication behavior utilized by many mammals to identify pheromones left by...