Hello r/IAmA! Thanks for having us! We’re here today with Dr. Winston Vickers, mountain lion researcher and wildlife veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, and Kate Remsen, an independent documentary filmmaker. We’ll be here from 12pm to 3pm PT today (3-6 PM ET, 19-22 UT) to talk about researching and documenting California mountain lions, the threats they face and what people can do about it.
Important research has been conducted by our group at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and many others in the state over the last 20 years. Unfortunately, the findings have been distressing: Mountain lion movement is seriously restricted by highways, and development has fragmented the CA populations and led to inbreeding in several mountain ranges. Death rates that are primarily the result of human activity are high in some areas, and mountain lions are threatened with local extinction in multiple mountain ranges. These findings echo findings in other areas of the West where human development into wild areas is rapidly occurring, and coastal California is ground zero, where we all can learn how to reduce the serious threats these animals face.
To share the information from that research more broadly, Ms. Remsen and I developed a series of short documentary films, combined into a full-length documentary to educate people about these magnificent animals and what we researchers have collectively learned about them. The full-length film, California Mountain Lions: The Legends of California, has been viewed over a million times on YouTube!
More Information & Links
Website: California Mountain Lions: The Legends of California Follow us on social media: Facebook and Instagram Learn more about the studies: https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/mountain-lions
A little bit more about our team:
Dr. T. Winston Vickers is an associate veterinarian for UC Davis Karen C. Drayer Wildlife Health Center and lead investigator for the California Mountain Lion Project. His research with UC Davis, and that of others, has been critical to the recognition of the major threats to mountain lion populations in California, and has helped lead to potential solutions that can help save these populations.
Kate Remsen graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los An
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