Jacques Fortier Photography

While Dania stole the show and our hearts for most of the trip, this was the most special Puma encounter we had. The darker Puma is a shy female who hasn’t been named. The lighter one is a male. In general the males never get as comfortable with humans as the females can. We first…

Dania looks out from the estancia as the sunrise warms Torres del Paine National Park. While much of this area looks at once pristine and millions of years old, there are important exceptions. A driver on the road down below claimed the life of one of Dania’s cubs last year. Her other cub was taken…

While Pumas aren’t always easy to find, sometimes you get really lucky. We found Dania just before dawn on our first day in the field. She was sitting on a small ridgeline just as we entered the estancia. Shortly after that, she relocated to these bushes to take a snooze. If she’d moved spots a…