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 cwilmers | Jul 3, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
If the Santa Cruz pumas had a survivor contest, then 16M would undoubtedly be the winner. For the past two years, he’s made a dangerous living straddling both sides of Highway 17, a sinuous freeway connecting San Jose and Santa Cruz. All highways, for obvious...