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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] It was once common in eastern North America and is still prevalent in the western half of the continent.
The members of the Panthera genus are classified as some level of threatened by the IUCN Red List: the lion, [28] leopard [5] and snow leopard [29] are categorized as Vulnerable; the tiger is listed as Endangered; [30] and the jaguar is listed as Near Threatened. [31] Cheetahs are also classified as Vulnerable, [32] and the cougar is of Least ...
The puma, of which Florida's panthers are a subspecies, once had the largest range of any land mammal in the Americas, living as far north as the Yukon to the southern tip of South America ...
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).
Jaguar: Panthera onca: 56.1–104.5 [15] (123.6-230.3) 148 (326) [16] 1.8–2.7 [17] 2.8 [18] 68–80 [19] North and South America: 4 Cougar: Puma concolor: 53.1–71 [15] (117-156) 105.2 (231) (Verified) [20] 125.2 (275) (Unverified) [21] 1.5–2.4 [22] 2.8 [23] 53–88 [24] North and South America: 5 Leopard: Panthera pardus: 30–65.8 [25 ...
In the 19th and 20th centuries, various cougar hybrids with differing big cats were attempted in captivity and reportedly successful, including cougar × leopard (called a pumapard), and cougar × jaguar. [12] Additionally, at least one instance of hybridization between a cougar and an ocelot has occurred in captivity. [13]
Panthera hybrids are typically given a portmanteau name, varying by which species is the sire (male parent) and which is the dam (female parent). For example, a hybrid between a lion and a tigress is a liger, because the lion is the male parent and the tigress is the female parent.