Chile

The Elusive In his book A Field Guide to Animal Tracks, Olaus Murie paints the elusive Puma as a creature cloaked in secrecy. Much of the time spoor is all most of us will see of the feline’s ghost-like perambulations. Over the years, here in the U.S., I’ve had the good fortune to have encountered lions on three separate occasions in a wild setting. Each time the camera was absent, yet that does not take anything away from the thrill experienced in witnessing these magnificent cats. ~ Anecdote and Puma capture, The Elusive © Jerry L. Ferrara. Image recorded in the wilds of Chile’s Patagonian outback.

And A Puma Feasted Death visited the Patagonian wildlands in the darkness of pre-morn. Its tenebrous intent was as shadowy as the gloom it traversed, and it moved with a resolute purpose. Death’s mission was to release a soul. And so, in the wee hours of dayspring, Death set free a Guanaco’s spirit and a Puma feasted. ~ Anecdote and Puma capture, And A Puma Feasted © Jerry L. Ferrara