Can PUMA Really Transform Urban Transportation?
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News tagged with puma
Predators form an unusual coexistence in the central Chilean Andes
In the high plains of the central Chilean Andes, an ecosystem consisting of only a few animal species is providing researchers with new insights into how predators coexist in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2020
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Sniffing out poop error in detection dog data
A new study in the journal Scientific Reports gets to the bottom of it: Why do dogs that are trained to locate poop sometimes find the wrong kind of poop?
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2018
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Mountain lion in San Francisco neighborhood is tranquilized
A mountain lion cornered by a game warden near a San Francisco playground and shot with a tranquilizer gun on Friday has been fitted with a GPS collar and is ready to go back into the wild.
Ecology
Nov 11, 2017
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How human-puma interaction may change the food web
My phone buzzed in distress the evening of Nov. 10. UC Santa Cruz had just sent a text alert warning me and other students that someone had seen a mountain lion on campus. Stay indoors, it said. Luckily, I'd managed to pry ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 01, 2016
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Female pumas kill more, eat less when humans are near, study finds
Female pumas kill more prey but consume less when their territories bump into human development, UC Santa Cruz researchers report in a new study based on monitoring more than two dozen pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2015
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GPS collar documents puma's travels from mountains to Mountain View
(Phys.org) —Forty-six M (46M) is a young puma on the move. A GPS tracking collar that UC Santa Cruz scientists placed around his neck reveals exactly where he goes.
Plants & Animals
May 09, 2014
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Drone watches over Florida Keys marine sanctuary
Lt. j.g. Kyle Salling stood on the bow of a 24-foot boat in Florida Bay, holding what looked like a large model airplane. With the propellers gently whirling, and the small red and green aviation lights on, Sims launched ...
Environment
Sep 26, 2013
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Where will future migrants come from?
In times of desperation—after a hurricane flattens a community, for example, or droughts cause widespread hunger—people inevitably search for better lives and better opportunities elsewhere. In some cases, migrants may ...
Social Sciences
Aug 21, 2018
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