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Medicine 2021-06-24 1 min read

The quiet of pandemic-era lockdowns allowed some pumas to venture closer to urban areas

Tracking data show how pumas in California's Santa Cruz Mountains responded to regional shelter-in-place orders
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The quiet of pandemic-era lockdowns allowed some pumas to venture closer to urban areas
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New research from the University of California, Santa Cruz shows how regional shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic emboldened local pumas to use habitats they would normally avoid out of fear of humans. This study, published in the journal END
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