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 yiwei | Mar 14, 2013 | puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
This week, using GPS locations from her collar, Paul and Chris F. located 11F’s final resting spot in the hills above Los Gatos, a town named after her ancestors. From what they could see, she seems to have died of natural causes in January, far from roads,...
by yiwei | Feb 20, 2013 | field notes, puma bios, santa cruz pumas
After over eight months since 36M’s capture, our team here has been itching to catch a new puma. Over the weekend, we tried to catch an uncollared animal using a cage baited by some road kill deer. While we succeeded in luring the animal into the trap, s/he managed to...
by yiwei | Feb 11, 2013 | field notes
Here is a cute video of leopards discovering a mirror in the forests of Gabon for the first time (probably). These were probably two juvenile individuals, trying to figure out where the other kitties were hiding so that they could play with them. Like most animals,...
by yiwei | Feb 8, 2013 | field notes
Some pumas are really good at evading capture (like 3M from last week’s post). They either do a great job hiding (from hound-dog noses) in trees, or learn to avoid our cages while feeding on our baits. One of the males we have been trying to recapture for months...
