Gonna Eat Somebody

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 domestic animals play a part in controlling...

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...