However, jaguars and pumas did not appear to use the puma evospeed same areas at the same time: capture rates of jaguars and pumas were never simultaneously high at the same location within the same month ( Fig. 4b ; Pearson correlation between logio nonzero captures, r = 0.09, P = 0.17, n = 258). This suggests the possibility of an inverse relationship of the sort jaguar × puma = constant. However, log 10 (month/jaguar) was not correlated with log 10 (puma/month) ( r = 0.08, P = 0.35).

The capture rates per location-month thus were uncorrelated but not simultaneously high in general. No single location biased the pattern in puma clyde Fig. 4b , with correlations for individual camera locations of "0.8 r <� 0.5, indicating no fixed relation between capture rates at any given location.The interval between consecutive jaguar captures did not differ significantly from that puma ignite limitless between consecutive puma captures ( Table 1 ).

The intervals between jaguar puma 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 black puma 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 therefore a tendency for conspecifics to be closer together in time than different species.Although male jaguars showed little evidence of mutual avoidance.

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 Medford Mail-Tribune that since Thiebes fenty puma creepers claimed the cat, the cat would be returned to the ODFW. Tim Moffatt, Northwest field representative for Friends of Animals, raised public objections.

Each was alone in remote country when attacked. Each was attacked just after dawn. Each was apparently jumped from above and just behind. In each case the puma dragged, partially ate, and dusted the remains, clear evidence of predatory behavior. Two people have been killed and seven maimed in 13 life-threatening attacks by pet exotic cats in the past seven years, of whom there are  at a guess based on very scanty records  perhaps 2,500.