Human-Caused Deaths Lead Mountain Lion Deaths in Calif
California, USA – Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers w...
California, USA – Mountain lions are protected from hunting in California by a law passed by popular vote in 1990. However, a team of researchers working across the state found that human-caused mortality, primarily involving conflict with humans over livestock and collisions with vehicles, was more common than natural mortality for this protected large carnivore. Their findings were published March 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most research on mountain lions is conducted at relatively small scales, which has limited understanding of mortality caused by humans across the large areas they roam.