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Puma populations are on the rise in Patagonia, now targeting penguins as prey
Protections and land donations led to the highest recorded puma density of 13.2 cats per 100 square kilometers, enabling new predation on stable Magellanic penguin colonies.
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Puma populations are on the rise in Patagonia, now targeting penguins as prey
Pumas largely disappeared from the region about a century ago as they were hunted to near-extinction by sheep farmers attempting to protect the animals from predation. But GPS and camera data now reveal the highest density of the big cat…
During the 20th century, the pumas, as well as the foxes and large herbivores, were removed from Argentinian Patagonia to give rise to sheep ranching after the European settlement. Their absence allowed the Magellan penguin colonies, once confined to islands off the Atlantic coast, to expand across the continent. Today that scenario has changed and the pumas have returned after an attempt to restore the fauna of the past. Their return to a trans…
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