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What Do Mountain Lions Think Of Humans? Find Out At The (Virtual) Pub!

Courtesy of Santa Barbara Museum Of Natural History

How about this for a way to start your week – a conversation about mountain lions…at your neighborhood pub? The virtual pub, that is.

Santa Barbara Natural History Museum is hosting an on-line event which explores how human presence impacts mountain lion behavior.

They are mysterious and reclusive animals, and the Science Pub From Home – run by Santa Barbara Natural History Museum – is exploring how human behavior impacts mountain lion behavior.

The speaker is UC Santa Cruz Professor Chris Wilmers, who studies mountain lions.

He told KCLU that mountain lions "don't particularly care" for humans.

"For the most part [they] try to avoid us," he said.

"Humans make it incredibly hard to be a mountain lion. We put up barriers like roads which make it very hard for them to move form part of their habitat to another."

Details about how to join the conversation are here.

Caroline joined KCLU in October 2020. She's won LA Press Club's Southern California Audio Journalist of the Year Award four times, in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026.

Since joining the station she's also won 12 Golden Mike Awards, 8 Los Angeles Press Club Journalism Awards, 4 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards and five Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Excellence in Writing, Diversity, Use of Sound & more.

Caroline started her broadcasting career in the UK, in both radio and television for BBC News, London's number one station 95.8 Capital FM, and Sky News — and was awarded by Prince Philip for her services to radio and journalism in 2007.

She has lived in California for 13 years and is both an American and British citizen and a very proud mom to her daughter, Elsie.