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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.
P-22 (c. 2009/2010 – December 17, 2022) was a wild mountain lion who resided in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, on the eastern side of the Santa Monica Mountains. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] P-22 was first identified in 2012 [ 4 ] and was the subject of significant media attention, including numerous books, television programs and other works of art.
Each mountain lion can have a very big hunting area. “Mountain lions have the largest home ranges’ of any land mammal in the Americas, spanning anywhere from 30 to 125 square miles in habitats ...
In the western United States and Canada, the name mountain lion is commonly used, first seen in writing in 1858. [13] The name catamount, a shortening of name "cat of the mountain", has also been in English use for the cougar and other wild cats since at least 1664. [14] "Panther" is often used synonymously with cougar, puma or mountain lion. [15]
A mountain lion fatally attacked a 21-year-old man on Saturday in El Dorado County, also injuring his younger brother. It was the first time in roughly two decades that a cougar killed a person in ...
Mountain lions tend to keep to themselves. But they’ve been spotted prowling through neighbors’ yards.
P-22's story began a decade ago, when the lone male mountain lion — then a juvenile — set out from his home range in the Santa Monica mountains, crossed the 405 and 101 freeways unscathed, and ...
A man has been left dead in California after a mountain lion attacked two brothers, the first fatal attack of its kind in two decades in the state.. An 18-year-old man and his 21-year-old brother ...