Cheetahs and Pumas Strike a Balance to Hunt (10 of 18) (IMAGE)

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Cheetahs and Pumas Strike a Balance to Hunt (10 of 18)

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A puma wearing the S.M.A.R.T. collar developed at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 3, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T.M. Williams at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'Instantaneous energetics of puma kills reveal advantage of felid sneak attacks.'

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[Credit: T.M. Williams, UCSC]

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