Burleigh McCoy
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Researchers combined data from more than 500 wildlife cameras around the Olympic Peninsula.
They also looked at the number of vehicle wildlife collisions and found where pumas were most active, there were 76% fewer vehicle collisions with deer compared to areas with the least amount of puma activity.
Justin Surachi at Conservation Science Partners says the pumas are likely changing deer behavior.
They're actually spending less of their time near roads.
The results appear in the journal Current Biology, Burley McCoy and PR News.
Researchers combined data from more than 500 wildlife cameras around the Olympic Peninsula.
They also looked at the number of vehicle wildlife collisions and found where pumas were most active, there were 76% fewer vehicle collisions with deer compared to areas with the least amount of puma activity.
Justin Sirachi at Conservation Science Partners says the pumas are likely changing deer behavior.
They're actually spending less of their time near roads.
Which he thinks is so deer can avoid the open space that roads provide, which are ideal hunting grounds for ambush predators like pumas.
Sirachi says these results could add to conversations around allowing pumas to naturally recolonize areas where they're currently popping up in the Midwest.
or even reintroduction.
The results appear in the journal Current Biology.
Burleigh McCoy, NPR News.
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