Raked with scars down his menacing face, Carnaza is an alpha male puma in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. Felipe Román, a naturalist, guide, and wildlife photographer who operates in Torres del Paine, has shared several posts about Carnaza, and every photo seems to prove the puma is a baddie who knows it.
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“[Carnaza] patrols his range in the park, which is home to a high density of pumas,” wrote RAWR SZN, an account that aggregated several of Román’s photos of Carnaza in a popular post on Instagram. “Like most males, Carnaza leads a largely solitary life, maintaining a territory that overlaps with several females but is fiercely defended from other males.”
Carnaza reminds me of Dark, another baddie puma in Patagonia. These males have clearly seen some conflict in their lives and, so far, they have always come out on top. What would happen if they went head to head?
See “Carnaza,” an alpha male puma in Torres del Paine here:
Here’s a compilation of Román’s Carnaza photos: