Puma

Talk to local authorities or park rangers to see if it is advisable before taking such a risk.
. Jogging, running, and biking on wildland trails can be particularly hazardous since such runners are likely to be less attentive to the surroundings and the motion can trigger a "chase and kill" reflex in the animal. The Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine the sources of the classified information regarding the program that the Times published. California law requires that wild animals who have attacked a human must be killed if they can be located. It later came to light that reporters and editors at the Times had known about this intelligence-gathering program for approximately a year, but had "sat on the story". This, as well as the extinction in California of the wolf and brown bear, has allowed the puma to greatly increase its numbers, as there are usually no longer any competing predators able to steal a puma's kill, though a few black bears may be strong enough to do so. and those in other countries without first obtaining court warrants for each instance of surveillance.

Pumas cannot be hunted in California except under very specific circumstances. On December 16, 2005, a New York Times article revealed that the Bush administration had ordered the NSA to intercept certain telephone conversations between al-Qaeda-connected persons in the U.S. A young male puma was shot nearby by rangers later in the day. Mitchell said Miller was guilty of “crimes against journalism” and “did far more damage to her newspaper than did Jayson Blair, and that’s not even counting her WMD reporting, which hurt and embarrassed the paper in other ways.” [17] Miller resigned from the paper on 9 November 2005. On January 8, 2004 a puma killed and partly ate a mountain biker in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park in Orange County, California; what is assumed to be the same animal attacked another mountain biker in the park the following day, but was fought off by other bikers. This included several predictions and calls for Miller to be fired, including some by self-styled media watchdogs Alex Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University (and a former New York Times reporter); Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University; and Editor and Publisher columnist Greg Mitchell. Pumas in such circumstances may come to lose their fear of both people and dogs and come to see them as prey. However, these accounts were widely criticized as revealing even more flaws and failings of both Miller and the Times than they answered, including uncooperativeness and dissembling by Miller to the Times and a lack of reasonable oversight of Miller’s work by the Times, as summarized for example in the Washington Post [16].

Attacks by puma on humans and pets are associated with urban areas situated in the wildland urban intermix such as the Boulder, Colorado area which have encouraged the traditional prey of the puma, the mule deer, to habituate to urban areas and the presence of people and pets. This account [14] was published on October 16, along with a personal account by Miller [15]. There were around 100 puma attacks on humans in the USA and Canada during the period from 1890 to January 2004, with 16 fatalities; figures for California were 14 attacks and 6 fatalities. After Miller's appearance before the grand jury, she was released from her contempt of court finding, after which the New York Times became free to write their own account of the affair. Attacks on humans are rare, but do occur — especially as humans encroach on wildlands and impact the availability of the puma's traditional prey. She said she finally relented only after receiving a personal waiver, both on the phone and in writing, of her earlier confidential source agreement with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, although Libby's lawyer claimed the offer of a waiver had been standing for a year. If a male puma invades the territory of another male, he may kill the kittens of resident females so that they will become receptive to mating. In October 2005, Times reporter Judith Miller was released from prison after an 85-day stay, when she agreed to testify to Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury.

Female pumas usually have 3 or 4 kittens in a den in a rocky location. The American Heritage Dictionary, however, defines refugee as "one who flees in search of refuge.". A male may breed with several females. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees defines "refugees" as those who have crossed a national border to escape unbearable conditions at home, while those who have been driven from home within their own nation are referred to as "internally displaced persons" (or "IDP's"). Adult males tend to claim a 250 km² (100 mile²) stretch for their territory; adult females take (50 to 150 km² (20 to 60 mile²) on average; however their ranges can vary from as much as 1,000 km² (370 mile²) to as little as 25 km² (10 mile²). Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, The Times has referred to those displaced by the hurricane as "refugees", while most news media refer to them as "evacuees". Like other cats, they will also move to certain areas for feeding. The adoption community is outraged that, for obviously political reasons, the Times has targeted the very private circumstances, motivations, and processes by which the Roberts became parents." [13].

Pumas will catch and kill their prey 98% of the time, so perhaps they can afford to be a bit choosey. The report went on, "Sources familiar with the matter tell Fox News that at least one lawyer turned the Times down flat, saying that any effort to pry into adoption case records, which are always sealed, would be reprehensible." The Times replied, "Our reporters made initial inquiries about the adoptions." However they also claimed, "They did so with great care, understanding the sensitivity of the issue." The Times was condemned by the National Council for Adoption, “NCFA denounces, in the strongest possible terms, the shocking decision of The New York Times to investigate the adoption records of Justice John Roberts’ two young children. Pumas do not enjoy being scavengers, however, and will generally hunt for their own food and not eat from a carcass. Journalist Brit Hume, of Fox News reported that the Times has been asking lawyers that specialize in adoption cases for advice on how to get into the sealed court records. The carcass of the kill is usually then buried or partially covered to protect it for several days, while the puma continues to roam and comes back for nourishment as needed. In August 2005, the Times was accused of attempting to unseal the adoption records of United States Supreme Court nominee Justice John Roberts's children, an unprecendented investigation by a newspaper. They usually kill with a bite at the base of the skull to break the neck of their target. The aggressive journalism that I long for, and that the paper owes both its readers and its own self-respect, would reveal not just the tactics of those who promoted the WMD stories, but how the Times itself was used to further their cunning campaign." [12].

They hunt alone and ambush their prey, often from behind. .. They normally hunt large mammals, such as deer and elk, but will eat small animals, such as beavers, porcupines or even mice, if the need arises. Other stories pushed Pentagon assertions so aggressively you could almost sense epaulets sprouting on the shoulders of editors. Pumas can kill and drag prey about 7 times their own weight. .. There are no authenticated reports of truly melanistic pumas. Times reporters broke many stories before and after the war - but when the stories themselves later broke apart, in many instances Times readers never found out.

Abnormally dark brown pumas with paler bellies have been described, primarily from South and Central America and were described as couguar noire in Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. But in the Times's WMD coverage, readers encountered some rather breathless stories built on unsubstantiated 'revelations' that, in many instances, were the anonymity-cloaked assertions of people with vested interests. Abnormally pale and even white (leucistic but not albino) pumas exist. "War requires an extra standard of care, not a lesser one. Kittens have irregular blotches of darker brown which can sometimes persist into adolescence but disappear by the time the cat is a year old. "The failure was not individual, but institutional," he wrote. The normal coloration of the puma is tawny or sandy, mimicking their principal prey, the deer. A second self-criticism by Okrent went further.

Pumas that live closest to the equator are the smallest, and increase in size in populations closer to the poles. [11] While this "From the Editors" piece didn't mention names, a large part of the incriminated articles had been written by Times reporter Judith Miller. Their life span is about a decade in the wild and 25 years or more in captivity. On May 26, 2004, the Times published another significant admission of journalistic failings, admitting that its flawed reporting during the buildup to the Iraq campaign of the War on Terror helped promote the misleading belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Puma kittens have brownish-blackish spots and rings on their tails. Incidentally, Times columnist and former reporter Nicolas Kristof, a Pulitzer prize winner, has mentioned being of Armenian descent and has criticized the ongoing denial of the Armenian Genocide by the Turkish government, in his Times column. Adult females can be 2 m (7 ft) long and have a mass of about 35 kg (weigh approx 75 lb). The Turkish Government still actively denies a genocide occurred.

In exceptional cases males may reach as much as 90 kg. Despite publishing dozens of articles about the Armenian Genocide as it progressed, the Times for a period shied away from using the term in its articles as part of its editorial policy. Adult males may be more than eight feet long (nose to tail), and have a mass of about 70 kg (weigh approx 150 lb). In April, 2004 the Times reversed its policy of not using the term Armenian Genocide. Puma claws are retractable and they have four toes. This has been aggressively criticized, such as by frequent Times contributor Christopher Hitchens, as carrying a connotation of justification; Times columnist Thomas Friedman refers to them as "terrorists" or "Islamo-fascists". Their bite strength is more powerful than that of any domestic dog. invasion of Iraq, the Times has persistently referred to "insurgents" rather than "terrorists" being responsible for the bombing and other acts of violence.

The puma can run as fast as 50 km/h (30 mph), jump 6 m (20 ft) from a standing position, vertically leap 2.5 m (8 ft), and often weigh more than 70 kg (150 lb). Since the 2003 U.S. Pumas are tawny-colored with black-tipped ears and tail. The paper's top two editors – Howell Raines, the executive editor, and Gerald Boyd, managing editor – resigned their posts following the incident. circa 1990) and an estimated 4,500 to 5,000 in Colorado. Questions of affirmative action in journalism were also raised, since Blair was African American. There are an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 pumas in California (est. In 2003, the Times admitted to journalism fraud committed over a span of several years by one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, and the general professionalism of the paper was questioned, though Blair immediately resigned following the incident.

They have also begun preying on pets, such as dogs and cats, and livestock, but have rarely turned to people as a source of food. In response, thousands of Jews canceled their Times subscriptions.[10]. Due to urbanization in the urban-wildland interface, pumas often come into contact with people, especially in areas with a large population of deer, their natural prey. The photo, however, focused on the comparatively minuscule number of Palestinian protestors at the parade and made the event appear to be confrontational. There are continuing reports of the survival of a remnant population of the Eastern Cougar in New Brunswick, Ontario, and the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec. The day after the Israel Day Parade in 2002, the Times featured a picture of the event on the front page. It is anticipated that they will soon expand their range over the entire eastern and southern United States. (In May 2005 Okrent was succeeded by Byron Calame.).

Pumas have been seen along the northern shore of Lake Superior with an attack on a horse in Ely, Minnesota in 2004. Bush administration (see below). Pumas are gradually extending their range to the east, following creeks and riverbeds, and have reached Missouri and Michigan. However, he noted that the paper's coverage of the Iraq war was, among other things, insufficiently critical of the George W. The densest concentration of pumas in North America is found on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Okrent did not comment at length on the issue of bias in coverage of "hard news", such as fiscal policy, foreign policy, or civil liberties. In Canada, pumas are found west of the prairies, in Alberta, British Columbia and the southern Yukon. He claimed that this bias reflected the paper's cosmopolitanism, which arose naturally from its roots as a hometown paper of New York City.

Hunted almost to extinction in the United States, the puma has made a dramatic comeback, with an estimated 30,000 individuals in the western United States. He concluded that the Times did have a liberal bias in coverage of certain social issues, gay marriage being the example he used. When pumas are found and relocated to more "wild" parts of the state, they are put into competition with already existing cats. In summer 2004, the Times' public editor (ombudsman), Daniel Okrent, wrote a piece on the Times' alleged liberal bias. This is mostly due to human infringement, clashing with cities and other urban "advancements" or because of the loss of territories that urbanization brings. Some studies have shown that the Times selection of op-ed pieces and letters to the editor seem to "bracket" their editorial position, making the editorials appear to be moderate — although again this practice is hardly unique to the Times. One of the only locations where the puma is in great danger is within the United States, mainly Florida and other parts of the East Coast. newspapers.

Even now, it has the widest range of any New World land animal, spanning 110 degrees of latitude, from the northern Yukon Territory (in Canada) to the southern Andes (on both the Chilean and Argentinian sides). The Times has also been criticized for allowing Exxon-Mobil Corporation to run a regular paid "advertorial" commentary piece on its editorial page, although the practice is common in other U.S. Before the modern human population explosion in the Americas, the puma ranged across most of the Americas. Mickey Kaus wrote that the executive editor, Howell Raines, was "on the verge of a breakthrough reconceptualization of 'news' here, in which 'news' comes to mean the failure of any powerful individual or institution to do what Howell Raines wants them to do.". Pumas have one of the largest ranges of any wild cat, holding competition with only the Eurasian Lynx, Wild Cat and greatly spread Leopard. Critics complained that this was an editorial usurping news space. Hybrids between pumas and jaguars have been reported, but none have been proven. On November 25, 2002, the Times ran a front-page story with the headline, "CBS Staying Silent in Debate on Women Joining Augusta" — part of a string of stories focusing on the Augusta National Golf Club, the host of the Masters Tournament, effectively demanding a boycott.

Hybrids between a puma and an ocelot have also been bred. A frequent critic of the Times in this vein has been leftist Noam Chomsky. In spite of not being closely related to the pantherine big cats, hybrids between pumas and leopards have been bred and are called pumapards. Such critics note the significance of the many important stories that the Times does not print, which can be found in alternative media. Although a controversial move, the hybrids are more vigorous than pure Florida panthers and excessive inbreeding is averted. political parties on many issues, the often-harmful activities of multinational corporations, etc. Hybrids between subspecies of puma have occurred where new blood has been introduced into the Florida panther. Some liberals view the New York Times as a conservative establishment newspaper due to its failure to use its formidable journalistic resources to critique and expose structural economic inequality, the comparative ideological similarity of the major U.S.

Unfortunately it vanished into extinction as late as 1925. Eisenhower in 1956. schorgeri). The editorial page of the Times has not endorsed a Republican Party candidate for president since Dwight D. c. Bush administration; and libertarian-conservative former columnist William Safire criticized the Patriot Act. There once was a subspecies of puma in Wisconsin called the Wisconsin Cougar (F. For example, Dowd strongly criticized President Clinton; Krugman (a professional economist) spoke as an economic centrist before he began criticizing the George W.

Colombian Cougar (Puma concolor bangsi). In 1972, the Times exposed the Tuskegee experiment, in which African Americans suffering from syphilis were surreptitiously denied treatment over a period of decades. Mayan Cougar (Puma concolor mayensis). United States (1971), which declared the government's prior restraint of the classified documents was unconstitutional. Texas Cougar (Puma concolor stanleyana. v. Yuma Puma (Puma concolor browni). This led to New York Times Co.

Colorado Cougar (Puma concolor hippolestes). It has traditionally printed full transcripts of major speeches and debates. Missoula Cougar (Puma concolor missoulensis). Today The New York Times is probably the most prominent American daily newspaper, sometimes being referred to as America's "newspaper of record". Patagonian Puma (Puma concolor patagonica). Sullivan, which established the actual malice legal test for libel. Baja Californian Cougar (Puma concolor improcera). v.

Brazilian Cougar (Puma concolor concolor). In 1964, the paper was the defendant in New York Times Co. Costa Rican Cougar (Puma concolor costaricensis). A new headquarters for the newspaper, a skyscraper designed by Renzo Piano, is currently under construction at 41st Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan. Mexican Cougar (Puma concolor azteca). More recently, in 1996 The New York Times went online, giving access to readers all over the world on the Web at www.nytimes.com. Eastern Cougar (Puma concolor cougar). The Op-Ed section started appearing in 1970.