by veronica | Mar 3, 2015 | field notes, puma ecology, video
Here is 26M gettin’ down in front of one of our cameras. We stitched together this series of photos showing him rolling around on the ground, just like your cat on the front walk....
by jsmith | Jul 29, 2014 | puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, Uncategorized
The following guest post was written by Puma Project field technician Sean McCain: Today’s goal was to make a final attempt to access 19F’s den site and collar her two five-week-old kittens so we could monitor them into adulthood. This would be our final attempt...
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 veronica | Jun 10, 2014 | puma ecology, pumas in the news
You may remember the beautiful National Geographic photo of a male puma, P-22, who lives in Griffith Park. His territory is very close to humans, but, as far as we know, he’s never had a problem with that. That is, until now. It turns out that P-22 has never...
by veronica | Feb 9, 2014 | puma ecology, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas
…Well, maybe why isn’t as important as how. Thanks to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, the pumas of the Santa Cruz Mountains are on their way to having a safe way to cross Highway 17! Read more about it in their press release! We’ve talked...
by yiwei | Jan 10, 2014 | field notes, puma ecology
This week’s blog was co-written by Sean McCain (one of our field techs) Ever wonder how animals communicate using scent? Enter the flehmen response. The flehmen response is a communication behavior utilized by many mammals to identify pheromones left by...
