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Topographic map of Texas. This is a list of mammals of Texas. Mammals native to or immediately off the coast of the U.S. state of Texas are listed first. Introduced mammals, whether intentional or unintentional, are listed separately. The varying geography of Texas, the second largest state, provides a large variety of habitats for mammals.
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/ ˈ k uː ɡ ər /, KOO-gər), sometimes called the mountain lion, catamount, puma, or panther is a large small 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.
Cougars (Puma concolor) are one of the most widespread cats in the Americas. They roam across North , Central , and South America , from Canada and the United States all the way down to Patagonia.
The cougar was the first sighted in the city limits of Chicago since the city was founded in 1833. [17] On November 22, 2013, a cougar was found on a farm near Morrison in Whiteside County, Illinois. An Illinois Department of Natural Resources officer subsequently shot and killed the cougar after determining it posed a risk to the public. [18 ...
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Officer Krystal Tucker said they found a bullet lodged in one of the cougar's limbs and the animal's head had been cut off.
The Jocelyn Nungaray National Refuge is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA), southeast of Anahuac, Texas. It borders the East Bay , part of the Galveston Bay complex. Established in 1963, this wildlife refuge is located on the upper Texas Coast in Chambers County . [ 1 ]
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).