Loch Lomond puma walk Sunday 6/10
This Sunday, Veronica and I (Yiwei) will be leading a walk at 10:30AM at Loch Lomond Recreation Area near Lompico, CA. We will search for gps-collared mountain lions who call the lake home and demonstrate some of the equipment we use in the Santa Cruz Puma Project....
Cougar kittens! 23F’s new litter in Nisene Marks State Park
On Tuesday, we went to Nisene Marks State Park in search of 23F’s new litter of kittens. After her last litter was eaten by an unknown predator before we could count the kittens, 23F quickly bred again and gave birth about three weeks ago! Using her GPS information,...
When Pumas (Rarely) Attack!
Pumas are highly elusive animals and the chance of running into one is VERY slim. But, with the recent Cruz Alerts—text/call alerts sent out to students and faculty of UCSC about potentially dangerous activity—regarding Mountain Lion sightings near the UCSC campus, I...
New Blogger: Daniela Rosas
Hello out there! I’d like to introduce myself as one of your bloggers for the Santa Cruz Puma Project. Daniela Rosas is my name and I am an undergrad at UCSC Santa Cruz, majoring in Environmental Studies. This is my second quarter interning for the Santa Cruz Puma...
NBC News – Santa Cruz Pumas
Check out Yiwei and Yasaman as they star in this nice NBC news TV spot about the project.
Ever Hear a Mountain Lion Whistle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mUvMu7trj8&context=C35e2e4dADOEgsToPDskJ_tCbgakPcAPPfHGJOVnr8 This gal has still got a long way to go before she can whistle like the people of Kuskoy Turkey but still, who ever sees a mountain lion whistle? I've been lucky enough...
Gonna Eat Somebody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh02tzNlaf8& Although pumas are the top predators in the Santa Cruz Mountains, they aren't the only ones. Plenty of other carnivores share the landscape with them and munch on smaller animals. Coyotes, foxes, bobcats, and even some...
Walking with pumas
This nice article about the project just came out in Science Notes. The article is by Nadia Drake a recent graduate of the Science Communication program here at UCSC. We’re in the mountains above Santa Cruz, in a small clearing on a gently sloping hillside. Gleaming...
Talking with Woodside residents about living with mountain lions
Last month, Yiwei was invited to speak about our research by the town of Woodside because its residents had been seeing increased mountain lion activity. Here is an article summarizing the bulk of her talk that just appeared in the Almanac (a local Peninsula paper)...
‘Smart Collar’ in the Works to Manage Wildlife Better
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 able to use the...
