{"id":7498,"date":"2018-05-23T21:47:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/24\/furman-biology-professor-is-on-a-mission-to-protect-the-mountain-lion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:18:28","slug":"furman-biology-professor-is-on-a-mission-to-protect-the-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-biology-professor-is-on-a-mission-to-protect-the-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman biology professor is on a mission to protect the mountain lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36333\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36333\" class=\"wp-image-36333 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/travis-perry-and-skull-400-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-36333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry admires part of his collection. Photo by Will Crooks\/Community Journals. Used with permission.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University biology professor and alumnus Travis Perry &#8217;92 has spent 12 years studying cougars. In 2006, he took a sabbatical to New Mexico to help a private conservation company assess mountain lion predation on bighorn sheep. It wasn&#8217;t long after his sabbatical that he established the Furman Cougar Project, which aims to\u00a0\u201cproduce research that can be used for the responsible management and conservation of cougars\u201d in southwestern New Mexico. Since the program began in 2008, over\u00a030 undergraduates have participated in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Perry spoke to Andrew Moore of the <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2018\/05\/23\/furman-cougar-project\/\"><strong>Greenville Journa<\/strong>l<\/a> about his research and what he hopes to accomplish. Said Perry, &#8220;A primary objective is to engage Furman undergraduates in ecology, conservation, and the scientific process in a meaningful and unforgettable way.\u201d Four Furman students will accompany Perry\u00a0this summer on his next trip to New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University biology professor and alumnus Travis Perry &#8217;92 has spent 12 years studying cougars. In 2006, he took a sabbatical to New Mexico to help a private conservation company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":18066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,6,69,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-biology","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41526,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7498\/revisions\/41526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}