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 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...
by yiwei | Nov 16, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology
Two of our collared lions were caught on Max Allen’s camera this August associating with each other. And when a male and female lion “associate”, you know what that means… kittens! Maybe. Female lions have about a 3 month gestation period, so...