Does sex matter? Temporal and spatial patterns of cougar-human conflict in British Columbia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Wildlife-human conflicts occur wherever large carnivores overlap human inhabited areas. Conflict mitigation can be facilitated by understanding long-term dynamics and examining sex-structured conflict patterns.
Kristine J Teichman +2 more
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Food habits of the Cougar Puma concolor (Carnivora: Felidae) in the Central Andes of the Colombian Coffee Region [PDF]
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2020 The feeding habits of the cougar have been scarcely studied in Colombia, despite its importance in the ecosystems it inhabits. In this study, we analysed the diet of the cougar using 53 feces samples collected from several sites in the Central Andes of ...
Diana Camila Muñoz Castillo +3 more
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Big cats are still walking in El Salvador: first photographic records of Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) and an overview of historical records in the country [PDF]
Check List, 2020 The presence of Puma, Puma concolor, has been controversial in El Salvador due to the lack of published, verifiable data. We surveyed 119 sites in Montecristo National Park and 17 sites in the Río Sapo basin using wildlife cameras. We detected
Andrea Morales-Rivas +8 more
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Viral Sequences Recovered From Puma Tooth DNA Reconstruct Statewide Viral Phylogenies
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Monitoring pathogens in wildlife populations is imperative for effective management, and for identifying locations for pathogen spillover among wildlife, domestic species and humans.
Roderick B. Gagne +9 more
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Tolerance for cougars diminished by high perception of risk
Ecology and Society, 2016 In North America, both human and cougar populations are expanding and increasingly sharing the same space, including modified landscapes viewed by people as their "backyard." Low tolerance for cougars in modified landscapes has been identified as a key ...
Aliah Adams Knopff +2 more
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California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2020 There is a paucity of published hematological data for wild, free-ranging mountain lions (Puma concolor). We collected such information from mountain lions occurring at mid-elevations to increase available baseline information. We captured and sampled
Vernon C. Bleich +3 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 Noise is the non-target search results that people encounter when searching for a particular topic of interest; it is also the cloud of distracting data that can obscure or deflect conservation communication. Online noise associated with large carnivores
Emma Wood +6 more
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Effects of remedial sport hunting on cougar complaints and livestock depredations.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Remedial sport hunting of predators is often used to reduce predator populations and associated complaints and livestock depredations. We assessed the effects of remedial sport hunting on reducing cougar complaints and livestock depredations in ...
Kaylie A Peebles +3 more
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Seasonal foraging ecology of non-migratory cougars in a system with migrating prey. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We tested for seasonal differences in cougar (Puma concolor) foraging behaviors in the Southern Yellowstone Ecosystem, a multi-prey system in which ungulate prey migrate, and cougars do not.
L Mark Elbroch +4 more
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Research Note. Trichinella spiralis parasitizing Puma concolor: first record in wildlife in Chile
Helminthologia, 2015 The genus Trichinella is widespread in all continents but Antarctica. The only way to identify the species/genotypes is through molecular analyses. In Chile, only one study has reported Trichinella larvae in a cougar, but the species of Trichinella was ...
Landaeta-Aqueveque C. +7 more
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