Furman cougar

LM4 - NEW MALE PUMA CAPTURED ON THE LADDER! We captured LM4 on March 3, 2012 off of a female elk (Cervus elaphus) kill he made on a farm field planted for wildlife.  The kill was discovered...

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LM3 RECAPTURED AGAIN! - TEAM PUMA 2011 WAS REWARDED WITH A PUMA CAPTURE AT THE END OF LAST SUMMER AFTER A WEEK OF TRAP NIGHTS.  WE RECAPTURED 140 LB LM3 FOR THE THIRD YEAR IN A ROW.  THIS ...

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Team Puma 2011 is back on the Ladder Ranch and has hit the ground running! On May 31st we checked all 25 grid cameras by running 2 separate camera teams. As always we captured some interesting st...

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LM1 IS BACK!!! - The above photo shows the first evidence of LM1 in the study area since the summer of 2009. LM1 was the first male collared for the project by Harley Shaw and Orville Fletcher in...

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LM3 Recaptured! - On June 20th Team Puma recaptured the prodigal LM3 and was able to exchange his non-functioning GPS collar for a brand new Northstar GPS collar, courtesy of Mike Abernathy and ...

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Hidden Dangers of "Cougar Scene Investigation" aka "C.S.I.": While visiting kill sites and random points all over the ranch Team Puma has encountered quite a diversity of species so far this sum...

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LM2 Kill Update - Today the Summer 2010 recruits for Team Puma checked out our first kills of the field season and it was a very exciting day! As evidence of just how hard life can be for young p...

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Above is a graph summarizing the prey selection data we have collected for 6 gps collared mountain lions over the previous 2 years. (This does not represent all the kills actually made by all 6...

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When following pumas around, it doesn't take long to realize that these critters can move. They cover an amazing amount of extremely rough terrain in no time. This graphs shows a frequency distr...

http://furmancougar.blogspot.com/2010/04/when-following-pumas-around-it-doesnt.html

In our study of puma diet, we have discovered that pumas often provide valuable resources to a host of other species, including other predators such as these eagles and coyote. Omnivores,...

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We have an interesting series of scent behavior being displayed by three different carnivores at the same location in the photos from top to bottom. On the 28th of January a coyote (Canis...

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Video slideshow: LM2 revisiting elk kill mentioned in last post. He returns to the kill at 6:00 PM and then again at 9:40 PM, but doesn't appear to feed on it . This may be because he was wary of...

http://furmancougar.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-slideshow-lm2-revisiting-elk-kill.html

The 4th Annual Cougar Field Workshop was held this past week on the Ladder Ranch. Participants enjoyed beautiful weather, engaging presentations and discussion, and the unique opportunity to get...

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LM3 Update: On January 22nd we received what seems to be the last consistent GPS data download from LM3's collar. The above and following photos of LM3, taken since the 22nd of January, confirm ...

http://furmancougar.blogspot.com/2010/03/l-m3-update-on-january-22nd-we-received.html

Puma mating behavior: Since setting out our camera grid in Spring 2008 we have captured two photos with both male and female pumas in the same frame. These photos show a rare glimpse into puma m...

http://furmancougar.blogspot.com/2010/01/puma-mating-behavior-since-setting-out.html

Puma Kitten Photos: Before the new year we captured our first photos of puma kittens with our camera grid! The above kitten still has a little blue in its eyes and its spots are fading away, s...

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LF1 Killed: On 27 December, 2009 LF1's collar sent its last coordinates. Yesterday, Dr. Kate Thibault and I went to search the area where the last coordinates were recorded. We detected a mor...

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With 5 freshly collared mountain lions (a total of 8 individually marked), and 9 new cameras added to our camera grid (giving us a total of 25 cameras now!) this months camera check was VERY exci...

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Even though we were not able to collar and keep up with LF6 using GPS technology, she has already shown up in our camera grid and in a few interesting photos from LM3's latest kill site. In the...

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Later in the morning on November 10th, after spending most of the night processing and collaring the female lion group, we were surprised to find the above female lion in Matthew McCollister's ...

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In the early morning of November 10th, Matthew McCollister and Megan Pitman deployed our 5th Northstar GPS collar on a 6-8 yr. old female puma caught in a group of three female pumas (one was alr...

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Today with the help of Brian Jansen, Matthew McCollister, Steve Dobrott, and Bill Mader we captured and collared LM3! This 140 lb. male mountain lion, recognized by his unusually skinny tail, has...

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Above, LF3 is waking up from the immobilization.

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On the morning of 24 October, 2009 we captured and collared our third female of the study. Orvel Fletcher's hounds had apparently bayed one or more puma in the inaccessible bluffs of thi...

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On 14 October, 2009 Matthew McCollister captured and collared the second mature male for our study. The puma was in excellent health and the capture went smoothly with no complications. This l...

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