by rking | Nov 21, 2019 | featured, field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, video
Back in late August we got a call from a landowner in Scottsvalley about a deer that had been killed by a puma on her property. The puma had caught the deer on a long driveway leading up to residences at a little after dusk. The driveway had fences to either side with...
by paulh | Nov 1, 2015 | field notes, santa cruz pumas
Sunrise from Mt Umhunum. Fog in the Santa Clara Valley. Nighttime lights of New Almaden. My day started early today in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve. I had been out since 5:30am searching for puma 26M in order to locate him for recapture. My plan was to start...
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 cwilmers | Jul 5, 2014 | puma ecology, video
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...
by yiwei | Oct 31, 2012 | field notes
Happy Halloween! The puma project has dozens of trail cameras scattered throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains. Sometimes, the cameras record some really nice footage of other species that call the Bay Area home. It’s a great reminder that pumas and humans share...