The Pacific II

This is Puma concolor...one of the biggest cats that you can find in Costa Rica, known as "Leon de montaña"(Mountain lion) as costaricans call them this young puma was a nice surprise during our hike to the old growth forest of the Corcovado National Park.

With the largest terrestrial range that an animal has in the continent, pumas are unfortunately threatened  by poaching since they kill  livestock, so usually farmers hunt them in a way to get revenge. Also habitat loss is a big cause of their rapid population decrease since they need a wide fragment of forest.

Because of that costarican puma's population have decrease their size, there's less genetic diversity in consequence. This could lead to a poor resistance of diseases and of course higher risk of extintion.

Although the sadly situation of the costarican puma, we definitely enjoy our time with our friend.