by cwilmers | Oct 2, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Remember 36m? This is the guy whose home range included the UCSC campus and went all the way up north close to Big Basin! This is 36M’s territory. Each circle is a GPS location separated by up to 4 hours. One day he even decided to make a kill within...
by cwilmers | Oct 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Remember 46M, the puma that wandered into downtown Mountain View a few months ago? Well he had quite a journey for the last 5 months until he was hit by a car on Hwy 280 a few days ago. After capturing him in downtown Mt. View and releasing him back in the mountains...
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 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 cwilmers | Aug 16, 2013 | puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
A couple weeks ago, 36m visited the quad outside of my office building, and took care of our pesky deer problem. No really, he killed a deer and fed on it for a couple of nights two feet from the Earth and Marine Sciences building and about 50 feet from our...
