The intervals between jaguar puma puma au captures and puma jaguar captures were significantly longer than those between consecutive same-species captures ( Table 1 ; Fig. 5 ). This interaction indicates that interspecific temporal avoidance exceeded temporal avoidance between conspecifics.Balanced analysis of variance on time interval between consecutive captures (with jaguar and puma as the 2 factor levels) using camera location as a block.

The order in which jaguars and pumas were captured through time differed significantly from random (373 runs of consecutive puma or consecutive jaguar captures observed, 427 expected, average K = 0.52, P <� 0.01). The lower number of observed than expected runs indicated a clustering of conspecifics and puma creepers therefore a tendency for conspecifics to be closer together in time than different species.Although male jaguars showed little evidence of mutual avoidance.

The avoidance is active rather than passive, because it does not arise from differences in puma suede classic habitat use or activity schedules. Both species used the same locations and schedules, but avoided coincident times. Although examination of the data cannot reveal whether avoidance was mutual, it is likely that the physically smaller pumas avoid jaguars. Anecdotal evidence from Mexico indicates that pumas are occasionally eaten by jaguars (Brian Miller, Denver Zoo, pers. comm.).

ÿþWorthy of a film expose in the tradition of Reefer Madness, the hyperbolic 1936 documentary that alerted puma sneakers the world to the perils of marijuana, PUMA PANIC!!! could be coming soon to a suburb near you! Causes include the possible presence of a puma within a few dozen miles; public reminders that pumas eat pets and people; hunting advocates blaming the problem on an alleged lack of people using hounds and telemetry to track pumas, then blow them out of trees in such a manner as to save intact heads for the wall;

Animal control officer Mike Horton said the use of the cat as live bait was apparently legal, but leaving the cat unsheltered in a rainstorm was not. Horton confiscated the cat, but Medford shelter manager Colleen Mucek told reporter Mark Freeman of the puma ignite Medford Mail-Tribune that since Thiebes claimed the cat, the cat would be returned to the ODFW. Tim Moffatt, Northwest field representative for Friends of Animals, raised public objections.

The ODFW, reportedly promoting an attempt to repeal a voter-approved 1994 ban 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.