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At the Apex

Elizabeth orning and Nigel Seidel determine the sex of a cougar kitten.

A cougar, silent and unseen in the thick understory, is emitting a beacon from its tracking collar. “She’s close, about a hundred meters to the north,” says Beth Orning, a Ph.D. student at Oregon State University. Orning has evidence that cougar No. C216 is raising a litter in this hidden ravine.

Tags carnivores, College of Agricultural Sciences, cougars, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, deslisting, Endangered Species Act, Katie Dugger, Oregon Wolf Plan, Predators, Wolves

Earth

Of Predators and Herds

Post author By shermale
Post date May 29, 2012

The health of any ecosystem starts with razor-like teeth and an appetite for meat. The “apex” predators — big carnivores like bears and wolves at the top of the food web — keep things in balance, OSU researchers have found in study after study in the western United States.

Tags apex predators, big predators, carnivores, Wolves