by yiwei | Oct 10, 2012 | field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Graduate student Max Allen captured this video of a female puma advertising for mates in the Santa Cruz Mountains. You can see she gets very close to the camera, rubbing against in a manner that any cat owner will recognize instantly! Pumas are solitary animals, which...
by yiwei | Sep 28, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology
Happy fall everyone! I wanted to share some fun news about our pumas. Based on their GPS information, it seems that 26M and 28F have been spending quite a bit of time together this last week in Sierra Azul Open Space and Almaden Quiksilver Park. I think we can safely...
by yiwei | Sep 19, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology
For the first time in our 4 year long project, all of our collared female lions are raising kittens! It seems that a real birth pulse has occurred this summer, with most of our females giving birth in July and August. By now, you have met 23F’s kittens, but we...
by yiwei | Jul 30, 2012 | field notes, puma ecology
Here is a rare glimpse of the chivalrous side of the male puma, stepping aside to share his meal with a female. Males aren’t always that nice, however, and will often attack or even kill animals that try to feed on their kills. In the wild, pumas often cache...
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 | Jul 19, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, technology
I know a lot of you enjoyed the photos of 23F’s kittens. Since we visited them, 23F has moved her kittens to several different hiding places (as a good mother should) to keep them safe. However, before we took off, we left a trail camera there to see if we could...
