Image of the Day: Picturing Pumas
This puma, photographed by a camera trap, is one of many species whose numbers are dwindling on the islands formed by the creation of the Balbina Lake in Brazil.
Jul 20, 2015
EDUARDO M. VENTICINQUE(See M. Benchimol et al., “Widespread forest vertebrate extinctions induced by a mega hydroelectric dam in lowland Amazonia,” PLOS One, 2015.)
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