ÿþTemporal avoidance or attraction puma evospeed of jaguars and pumas was further analyzed by comparing the number of days between consecutive jaguar jaguar captures, puma puma captures, jaguar puma captures, and puma jaguar captures at a camera station. A general linear model was run on the response of capture interval, calculated between each capture and the next. These data were tested against cross factors "Capturel," identifying the initial capture as either jaguar or puma, and "Capture2," .
The response was logio-transformed to approximate a normal distribution of the residuals and equal variances. It was hypothesized that jaguars and pumas avoid (or attract) each other through time. A significant interaction effect would provide evidence of a longer (or shorter) interval between jaguar puma and puma puma clyde jaguar captures than between jaguar jaguar and puma puma captures. No difference was expected in number of days between jaguar jaguar captures and puma puma captures (the main effects).
Scognamillo et al. (2003) likewise never found jaguars and pumas puma ignite limitless in close proximity in the Venezuelan Llanos despite similar habitat use and activity schedules, but this was not calibrated against intraspecific avoidance. Our results show for the 1st time that jaguars and pumas avoid one another more than they avoid conspecifics, indicating interspecific competition. The mechanisms that allow the 2 cats to coexist are subtle and need further study at multiple sites with different ratios of jaguars and pumas.
The ODFW, reportedly promoting an attempt to repeal a voter-approved 1994 ban black puma on recreational cougar and/or bear hunting with hounds, and still smarting from FoA's successful opposition to a proposal to kill coyotes at the Antelope Mountain National Refuge, counterattacked with a press release claiming FoA had threatened to respond with either violence or a lawsuit which one local TV station read on the air and was subsequently obliged to retract.
PUMA PANIC!!! occurred all around the west during the spring, including in Lagunitas, California, where a reported puma who kept a 32-year-old Novato man inside an outhouse all night at Samuel P. Taylor State Park may actually have been a large bobcat. In Palm Springs, California, the same day, Woody Barrett, 77, and his son Jerry, 54, wrested their nine-yearold terrier Taz from the jaws of a puma, a female who then ran beneath a picnic table beside a neighbor's swimming fenty puma creepers pool, and remained there until police shot her.
Her behavior suggested she was not a wild puma at all, who would have been far less likely to come near humans in broad daylight, more likely to fight the men, and certainly less likely to hide instead of bounding away at top speed. Indeed, she acted much like a house cat who expected to be scolded for pouncing on a bird. Wild vs. pets During the past seven years, three people have been killed by wild pumas, who may number 25,000 nationwide: Colorado trail runner Scott Lancaster, on January 14, 1991;