mountain lions

Expanded development on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, viewed as a climate refuge, is encroaching on prime wildlife habitat. As big cats find it harder to avoid people, many are winding up dead.

The city’s elusive cougars will do a lot to avoid people, including getting risky with wildfire.

Researchers find the felines are connected to more than 485 species, from carrion beetles to bald eagles.

A San Francisco Bay Area zoo is inoculating its big cats, bears and ferrets against the coronavirus as part of a national effort to protect animal species using an experimental vaccine.