Meet the puma: Chilean Patagonia's top predator As an apex predator, this large cat (Puma concolor) plays a critical role in many ecological processes in the environments that it inhabits. Pumas (also called cougar or mountain lion) help control the population of wild herbivores and through their kills, provide food to many scavenger species such as Andean condor. In this video, you can see Catimba, the dominant male in the Valle Chacabuco sector of Patagonia National Park. Our offspring Fundaci

Everything we thought we knew about pumas could be changing. A groundbreaking Panthera study out today in Science Advances provides the first evidence of complex social strategies in pumas--and any solitary carnivore. Researchers long believed that pumas interacted infrequently, but the team documented hundreds of instances of pumas sharing food with one another. “We were shocked," said lead author and Panthera Puma Program Lead Scientist Dr. Mark Elbroch. "This research allows us to break down