Tag: cougar

Deer may take advantage of burned forests in the summer, but they avoid burned areas with deep snow in the winter to reduce risk from the cougars that prey on...

Wildlife officials tranquilized and captured a mountain lion after it wandered into a Southern California shopping center. Rebecca Barboza, a wildlife biologist with the California Fish and Wildlife Department, told...

Predators could play in important role in limiting the spread of chronic wasting disease among ungulates, but under what circumstances? Chronic wasting disease was first detected in the Greater Yellowstone...

Wildlife managers know that hunting can affect wildlife population dynamics. But what about its effects on disease? In a recent study published in Nature, researchers discovered that hunting can also...

The Hollywood mountain lion dubbed P-22 moved around much less than it usually did during the early months of the COVID-19 shutdown. Famous for being the most urban mountain lion...

Urban development and sea level rise will lead to increasing habitat fragmentation for panthers and bears in in coming decades—unless efforts are made to set aside key movement corridors for...

GPS tracking collars on cougars have revealed that the predators extensively prey on the burgeoning feral horse populations in the Great Basin. “We found that both male and female [cougars]...

Cougars, top predators with a wide-ranging palate, have been known to prey on bobcats and domestic cats when their regular ungulate prey isn’t available. Jennifer Malmberg, an assistant professor and...

Veronica Yovovich had always been curious about the shape of plants around her school campus. Many of the bay laurels close to the University of California, Santa Cruz, were shaped...

The first cougar (Puma concolor) in the United States has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. The cat and several other animals were tested after...