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2020 puma sightings in Santiago
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| In a 2020 a series of rare sightings of pumas in the streets of the periphery of Santiago, Chile, were reported. Three pumas were sighted in late March-early April of which two were captured. As of 5 October Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero and the National Zoo had captured ten pumas in Santiago. Also on 5 October, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning and the Ministry of Agriculture launched a guide on "what to do and don't do" during and after puma sightings in cities. The first one is that pumas have moved into the city as a result of the lockdowns enforced due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.<ref nameEFEverde24sep/> A second hypothesis relates the sightings of pumas to a scarcity of food in their usual territories.<ref nameEFEverde24sep/> |
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