by cwilmers | May 8, 2014 | field notes, pumas in the news, Uncategorized
By now many of your have read about 46m’s big adventure into downtown Mountain View. Here we take a closer look at how he got there based on data we retrieved from his collar after we anesthetized him in a parking lot in Mountain View. We originally collared...
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 jsmith | May 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
In mid- April, we noticed from 43F’s GPS data that she appeared to be denning. On April 20, when we suspected that the kittens were 4 weeks old, we hiked into the den. We had retrieved an updated location from the den the day before, and felt confident that we knew...
