PUMA at Torres del Paine (CHILE)

Hello !!! My name is Rodrigo Moraga and I'm a wildlife photographer from Chile. I organize Photo Safaris in many locations of this beautiful country and one of my favourite places is Torres del Paine, maybe the best place to see and photograph wild pumas.

In April we had an incredible encounter with a female puma. At night we spotted a puma ready to attack a group of Guanacos; we waited almost an hour in the dark and suddenly we heard the attack. I was not sure if the attack was successful, so I use my spotlight and there it was, this incredible cat with its prey, still moving.

This video I'm sharing with all of you is minutes later of the attack; you can see how the puma moves the guanaco to a save place. I used my Nikon D300s and the 600mm to do the video.

I hope you enjoy it

Saludos a todos desde Chile, Rodrigo

Link of the video:

http://vimeo.com/40958406/
Password of the video is: 123456

What a great opportunity you had Rodrigo.

At the end of the video, she is staring at you. Did anything interesting happen afterward?

Jerry

Jerry. The Puma finally found a good spot to hide the Guanaco from condores and foxes. The Puma found a big bush very near so it sleep and rested there for two days until there was no left to eat.

Thanks for posting

Rodrigo

Congratulations, Rodrigo. I certainly wish we had been lucky enough to see these there.

By the way, when I was in Peru in January, I met someone who was living down in the region near Paine. They mentioned a tourist had "burned down half the park," causing an accidental (I presume) brush/forest fire. How is the park doing?

Max

Hi Max, thanks for your visit to the post. The park is doing ok. There was a massive movement of guanacos and also pumas to the Sarmiento Region..but things are normalizing again. The recuperation of vegetation is ok, and it seems that in a couple of year things should be as their where (well, maybe in 10 years).

We hope that the new regulations may help prevent fires and other irresponsibility’s

Saludos

Rodrigo

Hello. Video is going to be offline for 24hrs. It will be available Wednesday.
Thanks

Rodrigo