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A cougar has been spotted in Silverton, the Silverton Police Department announced on Monday. The primary prey of cougars are elk and deer. They are elusive and crepuscular, most active during dusk ...
"Cougar in area" caution sign, British Columbia, Canada. This is a list of known or suspected fatal cougar attacks that occurred in North America by decade in chronological order. The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther.
Nov. 3—The cougar wasn't far away when Bart George started walking a trail at Riverside State Park on Tuesday. A handheld GPS device told George, the wildlife program manager for the Kalispel ...
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In Southern Minnesota there have been a few sightings by deer hunters; the Department of Natural Resources has verified 14 cougar sightings since 2007. [14] Connecticut. In 2011, a cougar was sighted in Greenwich, Connecticut, and later killed by an SUV in Milford after allegedly travelling 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from South Dakota. [15] Illinois
The eastern cougar or eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) is a subspecies designation proposed in 1946 for cougar populations in eastern North America. [2] [3] The subspecies as described in 1946 was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. [4]
The DNR documented 25 cougar sightings in Wisconsin in 2023 as of early November. One had been recorded in Buffalo County on Nov. 8, likely the same animal killed three days later.
The big cat species addressed in these regulations are the lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard, cheetah, jaguar, cougar, and any hybrid of these species (liger, tigon, etc.). Private ownership is not prohibited, but the law makes it illegal to transport, sell, or purchase such animals in interstate or foreign commerce.