Pumas came back to Patagonia—and met penguins. What happened next surprised the scientists.
For decades, pumi preyed on sheep from ranches along the coast of Argentina, and ranchers hunted them—largely. The knobs disappeared from the landscape. Then, in 2004, conservationists established the Monte León National Park in the region. As expected, once the hunting stopped, the big cats came back. And when they returned, they found a new … Read more