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Nature 427, 385 (29 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427385a

Wildlife attacks hinder conservation efforts

Rex Dalton

Incidents such as the untimely death of Mark Jeffrey Reynolds, a 35-year-old cyclist who was disembowelled by a puma in the Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park near Los Angeles on 8 January, don't make it any easier for biologists who are trying to study and conserve predator species in the American West.Yet efforts to conserve pumas, wolves, grizzly bears and other predator species have continued to gain momentum.