by jsmith | Aug 18, 2014 | media, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas, technology, video
The Santa Cruz Puma Project was featured on this week’s Science Nation video from the National Science Foundation, entitled, “Bio-logging collar reveals unprecedented detail about California mountain lions”. This video shows three very important...
by veronica | Aug 6, 2014 | media, santa cruz pumas, video
POST and Pathways for Wildlife have partnered up and put together an excellent video about culverts and Highway 17! In the video, Tanya Diamond and Ahiga Snyder explain some of the work they’ve been doing to increase habitat connectivity across such a...
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 veronica | May 7, 2014 | field notes, puma bios, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas
In October, we introduced you to 41M and his brother, 46M, who taunted him through the bars when 41M was in our trap. Then in January, 46M wandered into a trap we set for him and we gave him a collar to match his brother’s. We didn’t see any sign of...
by veronica | May 6, 2014 | field notes, puma bios, santa cruz pumas
Last night we caught a new uncollared male, 48M. We were expecting to catch a juvenile that we had seen on the camera traps earlier, but caught a 112 pound adult male instead! He was a very polite cat — he went into the trap around 9pm last night, much earlier...
by paulh | Mar 22, 2014 | field notes, santa cruz pumas, Uncategorized
We frequently receive calls and messages from local landowners telling us about a fresh-dead deer in their yard. This is fascinating information and helpful to our research – we’ve trapped and collared several mountain lions in this way. In many cases, the...
