by paulh | Jul 11, 2013 | field notes, puma bios, santa cruz pumas
It turns out lion 38F was pregnant when we captured and collared her for the first time while filming our field work with KQED. She gave birth to a litter of 3 kittens early last month.
by yiwei | Dec 26, 2012 | pumas in the news
The Santa Cruz Mountains Puma Project wishes you joy during this holiday season, and we will return to blogging next year. For our last blog, we thought we’d share a story from Florida, the last home to pumas (called panthers there) in the eastern US. Recently,...
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...
by yiwei | Sep 19, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology
For the first time in our 4 year long project, all of our collared female lions are raising kittens! It seems that a real birth pulse has occurred this summer, with most of our females giving birth in July and August. By now, you have met 23F’s kittens, but we...
by yiwei | Jul 19, 2012 | field notes, puma bios, puma ecology, technology
I know a lot of you enjoyed the photos of 23F’s kittens. Since we visited them, 23F has moved her kittens to several different hiding places (as a good mother should) to keep them safe. However, before we took off, we left a trail camera there to see if we could...
