Table 3.

Cause‐specific mortality rates attributable to human, starvation, predation, other, and unknown causes. Estimates and standard error in brackets were adjusted using the Heisey and Fuller (1985) method for three age classes of pumas resident in the study area, during the hunting and nonhunting seasons

Season	Cause of mortality	Kitten	Juvenile	Adult
Hunting	Human	0.02 (0.01)	0.05 (0.04)	0.07 (0.01)
	Starvation	0.11 (0.05)	0.07 (0.03)	0.04 (0.01)
	Other	0.02 (0.02)	0.01 (0.01)	0.00 (0.00)
	Predation	0.31 (0.08)	0.02 (0.02)	0.04 (0.01)
	Unknown	0.26 (0.07)	0.00 (0.00)	0.03 (0.00)
No‐hunting	Human	0.02 (0.00)	0.01 (0.01)	0.02 (0.01)
	Starvation	0.01 (0.04)	0.05 (0.03)	0.03 (0.01)
	Other	0.12 (0.05)	0.06 (0.04)	0.01 (0.01)
	Predation	0.16 (0.05)	0.01 (0.01)	0.02 (0.01)
	Unknown	0.25 (0.06)	0.00 (0.00)	0.03 (0.00)