An apex predator, the mountain lion, has been quietly hunting interloping donkeys in Death Valley. For the first time, it has been caught on camera.
LOS ANGELES — An apex predator has been quietly hunting interlopers in Death Valley, and for the first time, the deadly encounter has been captured on camera.The cougar easily wins the fight: A photograph taken seven minutes later shows it standing over the dead donkey, eyes glimmering as it stares into a wildlife camera.
"I was interested in the wild donkeys, not just as a pest ... but as wildlife," said Lundgren, the lead researcher of the report published in the Journal of Animal Ecology."Which is, I think, how you should study them if you want to understand them." However, in areas where the mountain lions were not as active, the study found donkeys continued to wreak havoc, the study found.
"Fossil ecosystems are useful for providing baselines of conservation," said Balisi, a curator at the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology in Claremont. She didn't question the park's efforts to remove the donkeys through trapping efforts, but said she was excited the new study gave a more in-depth look at the understudied burros. Specifically, she pointed out how the research documented the donkeys'"predator-risk avoidance behavior," which can positively affect ecosystems.
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