Do pathogens bioaccumulate in top predators?
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 ...
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Puma presence impacts tree growth
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 ...
Captive cougar tests positive for coronavirus
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 ...
Wolf expansion in Wyoming curtails puma population
It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south from ...
WM: Puma harvest bolsters elk population in western Montana
Mountain lion predation is the main cause of death in young elk calves in western central Montana, but increased harvest on the big cats can result in larger ...
California wildfires may have killed hundreds of cougars
Wildfires that tore through California have killed up to 600 mountain lions, according to a recent estimate. Fires in the western state have burned more than 4 ...
California cougar fails to adopt orphaned kittens
A pair of orphaned cougar kittens are in a sanctuary after biologists were unable to get a female cougar (Puma concolor) to foster them. California Department of ...
Crossing a California freeway, a mountain lion finds new ground
The National Park Service has documented a rare case of a mountain lion crossing a major California freeway that runs past the Santa Monica Mountains. It’s the ...
Cougar question has possible ESA implications
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed the delisting of the Eastern puma, an extinct cougar subspecies. While reviewing the proposal, scientists have ...