Table 2.

Distribution of cause‐specific mortalities among age classes, and across the hunting and nonhunting seasons. “Other causes” included natural mortality, primarily disease and exposure. Causes of mortality of pumas that died outside the study area are shown in parentheses “()” but were censored from analyses

	Human = 18 (7)	Predation = 24	Starvation = 21	Other = 10	Unknown = 28
Kittens	3	13	11	6	16
Subadults	3+ (1)	4	4	2	8
Adults	12+ (6)	7	6	2	4
Hunt	13+ (6)	20	15	9	19
No‐hunt	5+ (1)	4	6	1	9