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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.
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.
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).
Mountain lions live in secluded areas across the United States with recent data suggesting that their numbers are increasing in their historical regions. These top predators, also known as pumas ...
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 ...
We estimate we have between 3,800 and 4,400 independent mountain lions, which doesn't count kittens," said Kara Van Hoose, public information officer at Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
National Heritage Information Centre: General Element Report: Puma concolor Archived 2015-09-04 at the Wayback Machine; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: Eastern Cougar Fact Sheet; The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species; Photograph of a black or dark cougar in Costa Rica; Largest North American Cat: Mountain Lion (Cougar)
According to the Mountain Lion Foundation, state game agencies have estimated mountain lion populations in the US to be between 20,000 and 40,000. Adult males usually weigh between 110 and 180 ...