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| Elbroch, M. | |
| Pumas: solitary but social? | |
| 2017 Natural History Notes: 168-169 | |
May 5, 2012, I captured my first video of an interaction between adult pumas (_Puma concolor_) in the Bridger-Teton National Forest east of Grand Teton National Park, an area where large ungulate prey are abundant but pumas live at lower densities than across most of the West (Quigley and Hornocker 2010). Location data collected by F57's collar (F denotes "female" and 57 is her unique id) revealed that she had remained in place for two full days, a behavior typically indicative of pumas that have made a kill. When new data conveyed that another puma - F109 - had closed to within 500 m of F57's position, I rushed out to set motion-triggered cameras over the elk (_Cervus canadensis_) carcass I discovered at F57's location. |
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