by rking | Nov 21, 2019 | featured, field notes, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, video
Back in late August we got a call from a landowner in Scottsvalley about a deer that had been killed by a puma on her property. The puma had caught the deer on a long driveway leading up to residences at a little after dusk. The driveway had fences to either side with...
by rking | Mar 12, 2019 | field notes, puma ecology, pumas in the news, santa cruz pumas, Uncategorized
March 7th, 2019 we got a report that a mountain lion was spotted on a residential property in Saratoga, CA. California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) personnel headed out to investigate and found a young female mountain lion hiding underneath a pine tree in...
by paulh | Oct 18, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
We recaptured puma 38F last week. She’s a 4 year old female. 38F’s previous claim to fame was being the star of a great web video that was produced by San Francisco’s KQED and the eventual mother of this cute little guy… Using radio-telemetry collars, like we...
by cwilmers | Oct 2, 2015 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
Remember 36m? This is the guy whose home range included the UCSC campus and went all the way up north close to Big Basin! This is 36M’s territory. Each circle is a GPS location separated by up to 4 hours. One day he even decided to make a kill within...
by mallen | Sep 13, 2015 | puma ecology, santa cruz pumas
A photo of a puma family above the night time lights of San Jose. This photo was captured with a motion-triggered camera by our field technician Chris Fust. The effects of urbanization and human activity are a focus of our project. We have found that human development...
by mallen | Sep 10, 2015 | puma ecology, santa cruz pumas, video
We have been using motion-triggered video cameras for over 4 years to study puma communication behaviors. Here is a video we captured of a mother puma and two of her playful yearling kittens. We suspect that the mother puma is 52f before we placed a collar on...
