SF Chronicle profile piece. The image above is a flyer for a movie inspired by the article which my graduate students will be producing.
Professor Chris Wilmers waggled the head of the fake deer in the equipment room of his UC Santa Cruz laboratory to demonstrate how alluring the contraption could be to a hungry cougar.
The purpose of the bobblehead deer – stored between a table covered with radio collars and a refrigerator full of cougar skulls, teeth, hair and scat samples – is to provoke mountain lion attacks.
Read on here. Or if the link doesn’t work, try the pdf (SF Chronicle Profile Aug 12 2013).