Los Angeles, June 23, 2017:
One roar from the "King of the Jungle" and that will be enough to chill your spine. We all fear those canines and claw bearing wild cats but that might not be the only case. A new study conducted by a student of the University of California says that mountain lions run away to the sound of the humans.
Justine Smith, who led the study as a graduate student in University of California (UC), Santa Cruz in the US said, "We exposed pumas in the Santa Cruz mountains to the sound of human voices to see if they would react with fear and flee, and the results were striking: They were definitely afraid of humans."
The study might prove to be valuable because of the human interference in places of the habitat of the Pumas which increases the chance of human-puma encounters.
"Fear is the mechanism behind an ecological cascade that goes from humans to pumas to increased puma predation on deer. We are seeing that human disturbance – beyond hunting – may alter the ecological role of large carnivores." said Wilmers.
He also added, "As we encroach on lion habitat, our presence will likely affect the link between top predators and their prey," he added.
– by Sumit Balodi of NewsGram. Twitter: @sumit_balodi