El Puma

One of the other volunteer projects here in Posadas is a conservation project at a park called El Puma.  We went to visit Jo who was working there and to make faces at the animals, hehe! We helped Jo with her usual task of cleaning out the birds who ...

... have a look! We both agreed those eyes definitely belonged to something a fair bit larger than a fox. The possible presence of a puma puts a different perspective on sleeping ‘under canvas’ that’s for sure! Trek Day 3: Our third ...

... out of the Final Fence at 3 in the morning and am in the queue for Lingui's Takeaway). So off I set, confident I cold overcome any Puma attack. Only a few minutes in and I spotted a condor circling above. I managed to get a snap of it but it was ...

... etc)........excuse me for thinking that they were taking the piss.......``lucky`` my ass.......didnt particularly fancy getting munched by a puma. Nonetheless Priya reassured me it was all good and off we went!  The 2 hour hike to the ...

... and forests, past some pristine lakes filled with water that could be drunk straight from the lake, we encounter footprints and feces of Puma`s but even with my eyes on a constant look out failed to see one on this trek. After 8 hours of trekking we ...

... an amazing view of Cerro Torre.  It was such a beautiful day, we passed through so many stunning landscapes and saw puma tracks and woodpeckers.     Neither of us have really done much in the way of trekking, or not since school anyway. ...

... one of the pumas as it was walking off. It was amazing, people could live in an area like that their entire life and never see a puma in the wild. They were probably the size of a medium sized dog, maybe similar to a blue heeler. The hike was probably the ...

... .  At the very beginning of the hike was a sign that made me just a wee bit nervous. It said, If you see a Puma you´re lucky. To prevent a bad encounter (what does that mean??? loss of arms, legs death?) 1) keep children close 2) If ...

... (Nicole and Ben) that we are travelling with at the mo´´. All was going swell (we made it to the glacier and we even saw a puma on the journey) when on the return trip, in the midell of nowhere we got a flat tyre. In typical S American style, the spare ...

... help them... we were intrigued...we could`nt imagine what was going on? It turned out that they had just been lucky enough for a puma to cross their direct path and they ran in the opposite direction! We were the first to find them in the bush... Si and ...

... , en silence, jusqu'a la laguna Torre, qui donne sur le mont Torre. La marche etait super belle, on a malheureusement pas vu de puma, et la meteo etait pas bonne. Il faisait froid et il pleuvait par moment. Une fois arrives a la lagune, on voyait bien le ...

... large yellow caution sign with a large cat on it? There are five carnivorous cats in the Tikal jungle. These cats are the Jaguar, Puma, Ocelot, Margay and the Jaguarundi. Venicio says that cats have been seen from time to time but are very rare due to the ...

... and a sliced bread that tasted like donuts as well as mate - the traditional offering to guests.   Our host also showed us a puma skin in the house and some sort of game of ring on a string that you tried to get over a peg.  There were ...

... animales propios de la región son el pudú, el huemul -que tiene aquí uno de sus núcleos poblacionales más importantes-, el zorro colorado, el puma y el coipo. Entre las aves es común ver al huala, el pato vapor volador o qusetro, la bandurria, el ...

... as llamas que carregam as bagagens dos excursionistas que sobem as montanhas. Enfim, espero que as fotos façam justiça a El Chaltén, permitindo imaginar quantos passeios empolgantes se pode fazer por aqui. Se v. vier, não deixe de visitar La Lucinda, ...

... and is located on the site that 17 years previously in 1877 good old Francisco Moreno was attacked and badly injured by a female puma (Leona means puma in Patagonian slang).  Anyway its a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, but in 1905 they had three ...

... on the rag.  I start the trek by myself and I see a sign at the beginning of the trail that says "If you see a Puma consider yourself lucky".  Hmmmm, why, because you actually got to see a Puma in the wild or because if you see it that means it ...

... in dawn and sunset illumination( more spiky peaks than you can take in)Some days we walk 16 k.- and some days we don,t.! Animals a puma was spotted the other day by one guide and we have seen tracks and Puma Poo! Lots of Condors , buzzards,and llamas, ...

... im Wald, wer weiss, was da so rumturnt!) Irgendwann daemmerte es uns dann, dass das da auf unserem Dach kein schlafender Puma war, sondern hoechstens sein Lebendgewicht in Form von Schnee. Nun liessen sich auch die komischen Geraeusche und das ...