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  • Study: Black bears are eating pumas' lunch

    Mar 19, 2021 9:30 am by Diana YatesResearch
    a puma in Mendocino National Forest. Photo by Max Allen

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    • a puma in Mendocino National Forest. Photo by Max Allen

    'When a bear pushes a puma off of a carcass, the puma runs away, and the bear eats the deer. The puma then has to make another kill in order to get the energy it needs,' says Illinois Natural History Survey researcher Max Allen.