Feral donkeys are considered invasive in Death Valley National Park, but new research shows increased predation by mountain lions could help balance the treasured ecosystem.
The pool in Devils Hole, home to the endangered pupfish, saw waves erupt up to 4 feet high after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit near Mexico on Monday.
Not only did the study find the donkeys were the “primary recorded prey” of mountain lions in certain areas of the national park, it also found that presence of the big cats changed how and when the donkeys fed, roamed and congregated and their interaction formed an “emerging ecological network.” “There’s a prevailing narrative that wild horses and wild burros are problems ... at some kind of biological level,” Lundgren said. “And I think that’s really non-scientific.”
“Mountain lions co-occurred with equids [horse-related species], just like wild donkeys, for several million years,” he said. “So it’s kind of neat that they’re together again and that these new relationships are unfolding, which in many ways mimic old relationships that were around for millions of years.”As the sun set on a landscape of scruffy mountains and sweeping plains, 20 wild burros watched Mark Meyers with ears erect.
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