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The cougar (Puma concolor) (/ ˈ k uː ɡ ər /, KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world.
The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar) is a cougar subspecies in North America.It is the biggest cat in North America (North American jaguars are fairly small). [4] [5] And the second largest cat in the New World. [6]
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 ]
Every morning with cup of hot tea, Michael McMahan takes in the unpolished wildness of L.A.'s 4,000-acre Griffith Park behind his apartment complex. When he's lucky, he captures images of P-22 ...
Nikki, a cougar who called BPZOO home for 14 years, resting in the shade in her habitat. “These decisions are always difficult,” said Gary Lunsford, Director of Zoological Services in the release.
The species has officially been declared extinct and removed from the U.S. endangered species list.
Primary threats to the population as a whole include habitat loss, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation. Southern Florida is a fast-developing area, and many developments such as Ave Maria near Naples , have become extremely controversial for their location in prime panther habitat, and for the roads surrounding them that kill ...
Puma (/ ˈ p j uː m ə / or / ˈ p uː m ə /) is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, [2] among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).