Tag: Santa Cruz Mountains

March 5, 2021

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 Cruz, were shaped...

July 10, 2017

Human voices scare away pumas

They may look big and tough, but pumas (Puma concolor) might be as afraid as humans as many humans are of them. In a new study published in the Proceedings...