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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).
The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion [4] or puma, [5] is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. [6] It is the nominate subspecies.
Mountain lions in the greater Los Angeles region are consciously shifting their activity to avoid interacting with human residents, a new study has found. Big cats living in areas with higher ...
The video of the mountain lion was captured around 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 1 by a Frisco resident Brent Blackwell's backyard camera, he told CBS News Texas. The video shows the cat prowling through the ...
Sometimes animals get themselves into predicaments that require human assistance to get out of, as did a young mountain lion in Vallecito, Colorado. The Weather Channel shared a video on Thursday ...
English: Portion of the Mountain Lion diorama, located in a Second-Level Wildlife Hall at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Date: 29 July 2017, 14:43:54: Source:
The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther, depending on the region, is a mammal of the family Felidae, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere , extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern ...