Meet the puma: Patagonia's top predator! From Alaska to southern Chile and Argentina, the puma inhabits diverse ecosystems including forests, mountains, deserts and grasslands. As a top predator, the puma plays a critical role in maintaining balance in Patagonia ecosystems by regulating populations of herbivores, providing food for scavengers and other processes. Our offspring Fundación Rewilding Chile is working to protect pumas along the Route of Parks of Patagonia in Chile. Share this video t

Meet the puma: Chilean Patagonia's top predator As an apex predator, this large cat (Puma concolor) plays a critical role in many ecological processes in the environments that it inhabits. Pumas (also called cougar or mountain lion) help control the population of wild herbivores and through their kills, provide food to many scavenger species such as Andean condor. In this video, you can see Catimba, the dominant male in the Valle Chacabuco sector of Patagonia National Park. Our offspring Fundaci