More people means smaller home ranges for pumas
Pumas’ fear of humans causes them to spend more energy avoiding them, which could ultimately reduce the sizes of their home ranges. “We know that humans impact ...
Mountain lions
Watch: Dogs save big cats by protecting livestock in Argentina
Well-trained dogs are helping reduce human-wildlife conflict in Argentina by warding off predators like cougars (Puma concolor). The dogs are trained to safeguard ...
Plague infects Yellowstone cougars
Cougars in the United States have been contracting the same bacteria that causes the disease that killed a number of the people throughout the world in the mid-14th ...
In California, two tales of mountain lions emerge
California likely has more landscape suitable for mountain lions than any other state, researchers recently found, but half of it consists of unprotected lands ...
Vehicle strikes, rodenticide cause L.A. puma deaths
Humans are the main reason for adult mountain lion deaths in a struggling population living on the fringes of California’s largest city over the last two decades. ...
Watch: California embarks on massive wildlife overpass
California is building what state transportation officials will be the world’s largest wildlife overpass. Paid mostly with private donations, the overpass will ...
Mountain lions select specific spots to hunt primary prey
When pumas are going after their primary prey of black-tailed deer, they change the types of landscape they use, according to new research. The discovery could be ...
JWM: Wolves reduce elk survival — but they’re not alone
As gray wolf populations rose in Idaho, hunters became concerned about what those predators on the landscape might mean for elk numbers. As researchers looked into ...
Development is dividing California’s puma populations
Habitat fragmentation is splintering California’s mountain lion (Puma concolor) populations, researchers found. As urbanization between Los Angeles and San Diego ...
TWS member solves mountain lion mysteries
This article originally appears in the University of Montana Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society September/October 2018 newsletter. TWS member Jennifer Feltner ...