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An analysis of mountain lion predation upon mule deer and elk in the Idaho Primitive Area
PaperHornocker combined winter snow-tracking with radio-telemetry to quantify how cougars hunt mule deer and elk in central Idaho. By relocating collared lions and back-tracking to their kills, he estimate…
Maurice G. Hornocker · Wildlife Monographs · 1970
Determining minimum habitat areas and habitat corridors for cougars
PaperBeier combined population modeling with movement and habitat data to estimate how much habitat a cougar population needs to persist and how corridors connecting habitat patches reduce extinction risk.…
Paul Beier · Conservation Biology · 1993
Dispersal of juvenile cougars in fragmented habitat
PaperBeier radio-tracked juvenile cougars dispersing through the fragmented Santa Ana Mountains of southern California, documenting how young animals leave their natal areas and search for territory amid e…
Paul Beier · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 1995
Estimating cougar predation rates from GPS location clusters
PaperAnderson and Lindzey pioneered the use of GPS location clusters to detect cougar kills, exploiting the fact that a lion lingers at a carcass to feed over one or more days, producing a tight cluster of…
Charles R. Anderson Jr., Frederick G. Lindzey · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 2003
Evaluating global positioning system telemetry techniques for estimating cougar predation parameters
PaperKnopff and colleagues rigorously evaluated how GPS cluster methods perform for estimating cougar predation, testing how fix interval, search protocol, and model assumptions affect inferences about kil…
Kyle H. Knopff, Aliah A. Knopff, Mark S. Boyce · The Journal of Wildlife Management · 2009
Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks
PaperWilliams and colleagues built custom SMART collars combining GPS, accelerometers, and physiological calibration to measure, for the first time, the moment-to-moment energy expenditure of wild pumas as…
Terrie M. Williams, Lisa Wolfe, Tracy Davis, Traci Kendall, Beau Richter, Yiwei Wang, Caleb Bryce, G. Hugh Elkaim, Christopher C. Wilmers · Science · 2014
Mountain lion social organization in the Idaho Primitive Area
PaperThis landmark monograph reported one of the first multi-year radio-telemetry studies of cougars, conducted in the rugged Idaho Primitive Area. By collaring and following individual lions, the team doc…
John Seidensticker, Maurice Hornocker, Wilbur Wiles, John Messick · Wildlife Monographs · 1973
Research overview: Florida panther habitat connectivity
OverviewThe Florida panther, an isolated cougar population confined to the southern tip of Florida, depends on a shrinking, fragmented landscape threaded by highways and expanding development. This overview s…
Research overview: linkage design between the Santa Ana and Palomar ranges
OverviewSouthern California's cougars persist in mountain ranges increasingly isolated by freeways and development, and this overview examines the science of designing functional linkages between blocks such…
Research overview: the Black Hills as a cougar dispersal source
OverviewThe Black Hills of South Dakota host a recovering cougar population that has become a documented source of long-distance dispersers spreading eastward across the Great Plains. This overview synthesize…
Research overview: the Connecticut cougar and trans-continental dispersal
OverviewIn 2011 a young male cougar was struck and killed on a Connecticut parkway, far outside any known breeding population in the eastern United States. This overview describes how genetic analysis and a t…