New video reveals that pumas are more social than commonly thought. ➡ Subscribe: bit.ly/NatGeoWILDSubscribe About Nat Geo Wild: Welcome to a place so wild, anything can happen. Nat Geo Wild is the network all about animals from National Geographic, where every story is an adventure and your imagination is allowed to run wild. Get More Nat Geo Wild: Official Site: bit.ly/NatGeoWILD Facebook: bit.ly/NGWFacebook Twitter: bit.ly/NGWTwitter Instagram: bit.ly/NGWInstagram Also called cougars or mountain lions, pumas range over much of the Western Hemisphere. Until now, scientists believed that within that realm, individual adult pumas kept to themselves, except to mate or to contest another's territory. Footage captured in Wyoming by Mark Elbroch, Lead Scientist, Puma Program for Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, demonstrates that the social interactions among pumas are actually varied and complex. In addition to fighting, motion-activated cameras recorded courtship behavior, and, most surprising, the sharing of meals, a behavior. Through the footage and the tracking of GPS locations, Elbroch noted a system of altruism and repayment for a share in another puma's kill, with different rewards based on the situation. Read more in "Once Thought Loners, Cougars Revealed to Have Rich Society" news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/pumas-mountain-lions-cougars-society-social-cats-animals/ Watch How Pumas Fight, Keep the Peace, and Share a Meal | Nat Geo Wild youtu.be/6Sxrhh4mioA Nat Geo Wild www.youtube.com/user/NatGeoWild

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