Above: A portrait of a Eurasian lynx, Europe’s largest felid (Photo by Miha Krofel) Written by Miha Krofel and Max Allen Animals live in an invisible world of scent that is often undetectable to humans. This is most ...
Above: A portrait of a Sunda clouded leopard (Photo by Max Allen) Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi) are part of the Panthera lineage of felids that includes African lions (Panthera leo), tigers (Panthera tigris), and jaguars (Panthera onca). These ...
Above: A puma pausing in the wildlands of California (Photo courtesy of Jason Klassi/ExpeditionEarth.org) Apex carnivores are well known for their effects on ecosystems, which include keeping prey populations balanced and limiting the spread of disease. Another ...
Above: A male puma growling (photo by Max Allen) Communication is an important component of animal behavior, but is difficult to study in the wild. This is especially true for cryptic wildlife species, such as carnivores, that are difficult ...
Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi) are a threatened species that is shrouded in mystery. Most solitary felids are renowned for being mysterious and difficult to see, but Sunda clouded leopards take this to an extreme. It is for this reason ...
By Laurel Serieys, Joleen Broadfield, and Max Allen A portrait of a caracal from our study area in Cape Town (Photo by Urban Caracal Project) In running the Urban Caracal Project there have been a number of learning opportunities. One ...
The Urban Caracal Project on the Cape Peninsula in South Africa recently captured and GPS-collared its 25th caracal in its quest to understand how these mid-sized African carnivores make their living in urban environments. The newest caracal was a male ...
Pumas are cryptic carnivores that are among the most difficult animals to observe in the wild. Studying these cryptic animals is often challenging, and it is especially hard to study courtship between males and females. One aspect of my research ...
Pumas and black bears are the two large carnivores found throughout California. Both species kill deer and other ungulates and as a result they often compete with each other. In Mendocino National Forest, where I completed my PhD project, black-tailed ...
I currently work on the Santa Cruz Puma Project in California, studying pumas that live in the highly fragmented and human-dominated Santa Cruz Mountains. Pumas who live here must navigate through a landscape that is a mosaic of different levels ...