Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [1] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
‘Majestic’ mountain lion finds daring spot to people watch at Colorado park, photos show Mountain lion ambushes 70-year-old hiker in Utah canyon. He fought it off with rocks
The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther, depending on the region, is a mammal of the family Felidae, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern ...
About two weeks before the Feb. 10 attack, a mountain lion pounced on a dog in its backyard in nearby Dillon the night of Jan. 27 and dragged the dog away from its home, McClatchy News previously ...
ABC News reported that it was the first mountain lion attack in the state in more than two decades. On Saturday, March 23rd, the young men were out looking for shed deer antlers in the El Dorado ...
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).
Another large male bear has been seen along the riverbanks and a female bear has been active for over a month in and out of the area. There are about 1,400 to 1,700 grizzly bears in the US.
In the 85-year history of Katmai National Park, this was the first known incident of a person being killed by a bear. [16] A video camera recovered at the site proved to have been operating during the attack, but police said that the six-minute tape contained only voices and cries as a brown bear mauled Treadwell to death.