Puma (2) vs. Quokka (10)

As solitary creatures, pumas (Puma concolor) have unique ways of communication. When they visit the same location as a previous puma, they can exhibit a wide variety of behaviors, including caterwauling (a.k.a. SCREAMING), to try and communicate long-distance. While marsupials tend to have smaller brains than other mammals, quokkas (Setonix brachyurus) are as good or BETTER than dogs and cats at spatial learning. 

Puma slowly walks through the forest, approaching last week's deer carcass site in the Santa Susana Mountains. Puma typically hunts every 1-2 weeks, routinely returning to carcass caches and successful kill sites. Meanwhile, Quokka is grazing amongst the other quokkas and tourists eager for quokka selfies on Rottnest Island in Australia. Bending down to snip some foliage, as she returns upright, Quokka discovers herself magically translocated to the SoCal mountains and sitting at the base of a tree looking out at a pile of leaves with a strong carcass odor, and evidence of many comings and goings of numerous scavengers and predators. Predator-naive from Rottnest Island, Quokka cannot tell the dangers lurking in the shadows and scans her head to look around. #SweetSummerChild

PUMA leaps into the scene landing in front of Quokka! This entrance startles even the Quokka, who panic leaps backwards colliding with the tree trunk even as her pouch muscles loosen, EJECTING THE QUOKKA JOEY FROM QUOKKA'S POUCH! Quokka's joey "flounders on the ground, hissing loudly" (Hayward et al. 2005)! Puma closes in on the 'amuse-bouche' as combatant Quokka hop-sprints away from the field of battle! PUMA POUNCES, QUOKKA BOUNCES! Narrated by Gretchen Andreasen and Katie Hinde.