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Mountain lions tend to keep to themselves. But they’ve been spotted prowling through neighbors’ yards.
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. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [1] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
Deputies began searching the area, and at around 1:46 p.m., they found the mountain lion crouched next to the older brother. Shots were fired to scare off the animal. The 21-year-old was dead by ...
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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.
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).
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Wildlife around Mount Lee and the Griffith Park includes coyotes, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, a variety of birds and other species. P-22, [note 1] an adult mountain lion, was known to inhabit the park. [8] An image of the cougar was captured on an automatic camera. [9] [10] [11]