by paulh | May 19, 2015 | media, puma bios, pumas in the news
A young male puma was captured and returned safely to the wilds yesterday by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and San Mateo Police. As scientists studying pumas, we often receive questions about pumas when this happens. Usually the first questions are...
by cwilmers | May 8, 2014 | field notes, pumas in the news, Uncategorized
By now many of your have read about 46m’s big adventure into downtown Mountain View. Here we take a closer look at how he got there based on data we retrieved from his collar after we anesthetized him in a parking lot in Mountain View. We originally collared...
by paulh | Jun 10, 2013 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Here is an update on lion 39M, the young male that turned up in downtown Santa Cruz last month. In short, he appears to be doing well, as interpreted from GPS locations and examination of a few sites where he’s killed and eaten prey. GPS locations indicate that 39M...
by yiwei | Jul 24, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology
Last month, we told you about 35M, a young dispersing male who was traveling all around the Bay Area looking for a place to settle down (see his old map here). Our recent data on him shows that he might have settled down a bit west of Portola Valley near Palo Alto. Of...
by yiwei | Jun 18, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
When a young male kitten grows up, he must leave the relative safety of his mother’s protection to venture out into the world alone. If he hopes to survive and build his own territory, he must successfully avoid being killed by other male lions, including his...