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Mountain Lion Home Makeover
Kima explores his remodeled digs. The next time you travel down Big Cat Trail at the San Diego Zoo, be sure to check out our upgraded mountain lion, or cougar, habitat. Thanks to a generous donation,...
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Feline Fun
A northern Chinese leopard enjoys bone day. Providing enrichment is one of the most enjoyable, and important, parts of caring for the cats that live on Big Cat Trail at the San Diego Zoo. Enrichment is...
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Kangaroo Rats Dig Mountain Lions!
We have a new summer fellow with the Stephens’ kangaroo rat project this year. Matt Golembeski (at right) joined our team in June to study the effects of top predator scent on coyote deterrence. We...
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Camera Trap: Puma (Mountain Lion)
A puma triggers the camera trap's eye. I’ve just had the opportunity to quickly review the photos that our remote cameras have taken in the cloud forest of southeastern Peru over the last few months....
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Mountain Lion: Sensing Humans
I recently wrote about some remote camera photos from southeast Peru that illustrated mountain lion scent-marking behavior (see post Camera Trap: Puma (Mountain Lion)). I commented that if our sense of...
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A Summer Spent Helping Kangaroo Rats
Matt modifies a camera trap to reduce temperature impacts on the camera. I was lucky enough to work as an intern this summer for the Applied Animal Ecology Division of the San Diego Zoo Institute for...
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Mountain Lions and Palm Trees
Can you see the 2nd pair of eyes? Did you ever think about how palm trees might move mountain lions (pumas) and jaguars around? Where we’re working in Southeast Peru with the Botanical Institute of...
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Protecting Kangaroo Rats
A remote camera records a coyote on an SKR release site. I am happy to report that we had another successful (and exciting!) field season. We re-trapped endangered Stephens’ kangaroo rats (SKRs) on...
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