by paulh | Oct 18, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
We recaptured puma 38F last week. She’s a 4 year old female. 38F’s previous claim to fame was being the star of a great web video that was produced by San Francisco’s KQED and the eventual mother of this cute little guy… Using radio-telemetry collars, like we...
by jsmith | Nov 13, 2013 | santa cruz pumas
The Santa Cruz Puma Project was recently granted permission to start tracking puma kittens by fitting them with GPS collars when they are about four weeks old. We have received some questions from the public about why we want to follow the kittens from early on in...
by paulh | Jan 29, 2013 | field notes, puma bios, santa cruz pumas
I received a message from a friend a couple of days ago with curious news: a friend of his had found a puma skeleton and tracking collar near Wilder Ranch State Park, and did I want the collar? “Yes, of course” I replied, suspecting that the remains must be those of...
by cwilmers | Sep 6, 2011 | media, technology
Here’s a recent New York Times article about the work Terrie is doing to calibrate our new collars on captive mountain lions in Colorado. They said it couldn’t be done, but sure enough these lions are walking on a treadmill! We’ll eventually be...