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"Cougar in area" caution sign, British Columbia, Canada. This is a list of known or suspected fatal cougar attacks that occurred in North America by decade in chronological order. 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.
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.
Although humans can be attacked by many kinds of non-human animals, man-eating animals are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual diet and actively hunt and kill humans. Most reported cases of man-eaters have involved lions , tigers , leopards , polar bears , and large crocodilians .
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 ...
Mountain lions, also known as cougars, pumas, and panthers, once roamed the Eastern United States, but they were hunted to extinction in many states. Conservation efforts have helped mountain lion ...
Johnson County Supervisor Jon Green speaks to a crowd of more than 75 demonstrators protesting Senate File 2340 on Monday, July 1, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa. 'We are families, not criminals'
The eastern cougar or eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) is a subspecies designation proposed in 1946 for cougar populations in eastern North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The subspecies as described in 1946 was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. [ 4 ]
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