Puma Concolor at Autosafari Chapin NIKOND810 105mm
Photo by Nicholas Hellmuth, FLAAR photo archive of flora and fauna of Mesoamerica.
Short PowerPoint on preview for 17 topics on felines of Mesoamerica: zoology, ethnozoology and iconography. All these topics are divided into 7 different presentations.
These lectures on iconography and zoology of jaguars, pumas, etc. in the art of Maya, Teotihuacan murals, Cacaxtla murals, Aztec, Mixtec and Maya codices, and felines on Maya murals, stelae, ceramics, etc. are available to your university, research institute, zoo, alumni club, social club, family and friends. A contribution to our on-going and recent half-century of field work and library research would be appreciated.
You can select one, two, three or however many different presentation topics you prefer:
Presentation can be in-person anywhere in the world, or via ZOOM. In Spanish or in English, or simultaneously translated for your preferred language.
Contact email is on the last page of this PPTx
The feline on the front cover is a black jaguar, found in Guatemala, Mexico and surrounding countries. This is not a “black panther” and is not a leopard: it’s a jaguar of Mesoamerica.
White jaguars and rare gray jaguars also exist (as you will see in this new PowerPoint lecture by Nicholas Hellmuth and his team at FLAAR).
PDF, Articles, Books on cougar of Mesoamerica, Puma concolor
- 2004
- Patrones de Alimentación y Disponibilidad de Presas del Jaguar (Panthera onca) y del Puma (Puma concolor) en la Reserva de la Biosfera Calakmul, Campeche, México. Facultad de Ciencias. Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 63 pages.
- 2009
- Los leones de Río Negro, Baja Verapaz. Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. 7 pages.
Available Online:
www.rio-negro.info/che/doc/DiegoAlburez_AndreaAguilar_Koj.pdf
- 2005
- Mamíferos de la Península de Yucatán. Editorial Dante S.A. de C.V. Mérida, Yucatán, México. 79 pages.
Sold Online:
www.amazon.com.mx/Mam%C3%ADferos-Pen%C3%ADnsula-
Yucat%C3%A1n-Gu%C3%ADa-Completa/dp/6077857084
- 2012
- Manual para el rastreo de mamíferos silvestres de México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio). México, D.F. 255 pages.
Available Online:
http://200.12.166.51/janium/Documentos/6800.pdf
- 2014
- Maya Exploitation of Animal Resources during the Middle Preclassic Period: An Archaeozoological Analysis from Pacbitun, Belize. Faculty of Arts and Science. Anthropology Graduate M.A. Program. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. 253 pages.
Available Online:
www.pacbitunarchaeology.com/wp-
content/uploads/2011/05/Arianne-Boileau-MA-Thesis-2013.pdf
- 2016
- Relative abundance and activity patterns of wild felids in Chimalapas rainforest, Oaxaca, México. THERYA. Vol. 7, No. 1. Pages 123-134.
Available Online:
www.scielo.org.mx/pdf/therya/v7n1/2007-3364-therya-7-01-
00123.pdf
- 2014
- Depredación del Puma (Puma concolor) en un bosque Neotropical Centroamericano. Revista Latinoamericana de Conservación. Vol. 4. Pages 40-45.
Available Online:
www.academia.edu/17176772/Depredaci%C3%B3n_del_puma_Puma_
concolor_en_un_bosque_Neotropical_Centroam%C3%A9ricano
- 2010
- Ecología y Conservación del Jaguar (Panthera onca) y Puma
(Puma concolor) en la Región de Calakmul y sus implicaciones para la conservación de la Península de Yucatán. Universidad de Granada.
Available Online:
https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/tesis?codigo=63452
- 2017
- Spatial requirements of jaguars and pumas in Southern Mexico. Mammalian Biology. Vol. 84. Pages 52-60.
Sold Online:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1616504717300198
- 1997
- Neotropical Rainforest Mammals. A Field Guide, Second Edition. The University of Chicago Press. 307 pages.
Sold Online:
www.amazon.es/Neotropical-Rain-Forest-Mammals-Field/dp/0226207218
- 2006
- Dieta, Uso de Hábitat y Patrones de Actividad del Puma (Puma concolor) y el Jaguar (Panthera onca) en la Selva Maya. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 67 pages.
Available Online:
www.carnivoreconservation.org/files/thesis/estrada_2006_msc.pdf
- 2015
- Diseño y evaluación del corredor del puma (Puma concolor) entre el Parque Nacional La Tigra y las Reservas Biológicas Uyuca y Yuscarán, Monserrat. Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras. 31 pages.
Available Online:
https://bdigital.zamorano.edu/bitstream/11036/4502/1/IAD-2015-011.pdf
- 2010
- Human-Felid Interactions in Three Mestizo Communities of the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, México: Benefits, Conflicts and Traditional Uses of Species. Human Ecology. No. 38. Pages 451-457.
Sold Online:
www.jstor.org/stable/40603034?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- 2013
- Feeding ecology of puma Puma concolor in Mexican montane forests with comments about jaguar Panthera onca. Wildl. Biol. No. 19. Pages 179-187.
Available Online:
www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.2981/12-092
- 2011
- Conectividad funcional para el puma (Puma concolor) en el centro de México. Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. 94 pages.
Available Online:
http://ri.uaq.mx/bitstream/123456789/3970/1/RI003414.pdf
- 2013
- Uso Medicinal de la Fauna Silvestre por Indígenas Tlahuicas en Ocuilan, México. Facultad de Ciencias. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 78 pages.
Available Online:
http://132.248.9.195/ptd2013/febrero/303249203/303249203.pdf
- 2004
- Abundancia Relativa de Jaguar (Panthera onca), Puma (Puma concolor) y Ocelote (Leopardus pardalis) en el Parque Nacional Laguna Lachua, Cobán, Alta Verapaz. Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia. Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 92 pages.
Available Online:
https://biblioteca-farmacia.usac.edu.gt/library/index.php?
title=275&lang=%20%20&query=@title=Special:GSM
SearchPage@process=@autor=@mode=&recnum=17&mode
- n.d.
- Manual on the Problem of Depredation caused by Jaguars and Pumas on cattle ranches. Wildlife Conservation Society and Cat Specialist Group, IUCN. 35 pages.
Available Online:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=
10.1.1.572.1717&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- 2013
- Carnívoros de Guatemala. Una introducción para jóvenes. Organización Nacional para la Conservación y el Ambiente- ONCA-.
- 2007
- Guía Ilustrada de Pelos para la Identificación de Mamíferos Medianos y Mayores de Guatemala. Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas y Biológicas (IIQB), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacia, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. 87 pages.
Available Online:
http://digi.usac.edu.gt/bvirtual/informes/puirna/infguia.pdf
- 2006
- Competitive Release in Diets of Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) and Puma (Puma concolor) after Jaguar (Panthera onca) decline. Journal of Mammalogy. Vol. 87, No. 4. Pages 808-816.
Available Online:
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/87/4/808/968843
- 2008
- Abundancia de Pumas (Puma concolor) en La Gloria-El Lechugal, Reserva de la Biosfera Maya, Guatemala. Mesoamerica. Vol. 12, No. 3.
Available Online:
https://guatemala.wcs.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/
Download.aspx?EntryId=9638&PortalId=115&DownloadMethod=attachment
- 1935
- Mammals from Guatemala and British Honduras. University of Michigan. Museum of Zoology. 40 pages.
Available Online:
http://eprints.uberibz.org/799/1/MP026.pdf
- n.d.
- Pumas y Jaguares Simpátricos: Datos de Trampas-Cámara en Bolivia y Belize. Memorias: Manejo de Fauna Silvestre en Amazonia y Latinoamerica. Wildlife Conservation Society Santa Cruz Bolivia. Department of Fishenies and Wildlife Sciencies, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, USA. 237 pages.
Available Online:
www.comfauna.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/PDFs-
Manejofaunasilvestre/Iquitos-
2004/3_Investigacion_Biologica_Aplicable_al_Manejo/238-
246_anoss_PumasJaguaresSimpatricosDatosTrampasCamara.pdf
- 2013
- Impacts of Subsistence Hunting on the Foraging Ecology of Jaguar and Puma in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. University of Florida. 38 pages.
Available Online:
http://library.bfreebz.org/Mammals/Anthony%20Novack%2C%20Impacts%20of%20Subsistence%20Hunting%20on%20the%20Foraging%20Ecology%20of%20Jaguar%20and%20Puma%20in%20the%20Maya%20Biosphere%20Reserve%2C%20
Guatemala%2C%202003.pdf
- 2005
- Foraging ecology of jaguar (Panthera onca) and puma (Puma concolor) in hunted and non-hunted sites within the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. The Zoological Society of London. J. Zool, Lond. Pages 267-178
Sold Online:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/
pdf/10.1017/S0952836905007338
- 2009
- Plan Nacional de Conservación del Puma. Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente. Segunda edición. 50 pages.
Available Online:
http://bibliotecadigital.ciren.cl/bitstream/handle/123456789/
26095/HUM2-0142.pdf?sequence=1
- 2012
- Memoria del Simposio: “Humanos y Grandes Felinos como Depredadores de Fauna Silvestre en el Neo trópico”. XVI Congreso de la Sociedad Mesoamericana para la Biología y la Conservación –SMBC-; Líderes en la Conservación de Felinos PANTHERA y Sociedad Mastozoológica de Panamá SOMASPA. Ciudad de Panamá, Panamá. 22 pages.
- 2014
- Dinámica poblacional de Puma concolor y sus presas principales, en la Sierra. 170 pages.
Available Online:
http://ri.uaemex.mx/handle/20.500.11799/58941
- 2013
- Differences in stakeholder perceptions of the jaguar Panthera onca and puma Puma concolor in the tropical lowlands of Guatemala. Oryx. Vol. 47, No. 1. Pages 109-112.
Sold Online:
www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/differences-in-stakeholder-perceptions-of-the-jaguar-panthera-onca-and-puma-puma-concolor-in-the-tropical-lowlands-of-guatemala/996CB1ADA0511BA3E6CF1550049A0350
- n.d.
- Conviviendo con el Jaguar: Guía para ganaderos. Wildlife Conservation Society. 24 pages.
Available Online:
https://guatemala.wcs.org/DesktopModules/Bring2mind/DMX/Download.aspx?
EntryId=15136&PortalId=115&DownloadMethod=attachment
Suggested webpages with photos and information on Puma concolor
www.yaguara.org/eng/publicaciones.php
Information.
www.iucnredlist.org/details/18868/0
Information.
www.catsg.org/catsglib/highlights.php
Information.
http://gis.cdatribe-nsn.gov/ethnobiology/AnimalDetails.aspx?id=69
Information
http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Puma_concolor/
Information.
http://eol.org/pages/311910/details
Information and photos.
www.conservacionpatagonica.org/blog/es/2015/08/12/species-profile-puma-puma-concolor/
Information and photos.
www.felineworlds.com/habitat-del-puma/
Information and photos.
Updated by María José Toralla
First posted November, 2017
Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica