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Other sympatric predators include the grizzly bear and American black bears. [28] Cougars are known to prey on bear cubs. [29] Cougars in the Great Basin have been recorded to prey on feral horses, [30] as well as feral donkeys in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. [31] Rivalry between the cougar and grizzly bear was a popular topic in North America.
The Florida panther had for a long time been considered a unique cougar subspecies, with the scientific name Felis concolor coryi proposed by Outram Bangs in 1899. [11] A genetic study of cougar mitochondrial DNA showed that many of the purported cougar subspecies described in the 19th century are too similar to be recognized as distinct. [12]
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).
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Our hearts are in our throats watching this tiny baby black bear cub learn how to cross a flooded creek bed. In the clip, the tiny bear is pawing at the water at the edge of a stream, looking for ...
There's nothing cuter than baby animals playing together, and many of us could watch videos of them all day long doing just that. In mid-November 2023, two mountain lion cubs were found wandering ...
A white panther is a white specimen of any of several species of larger cat. "Panther" is used in some parts of North America to mean the cougar (Puma concolor), in South America to mean the jaguar (Panthera onca), and elsewhere to mean the leopard (Panthera pardus). A white panther may then be a white cougar, a white jaguar, or a white leopard.
According to Carl Hagenbeck (1951), a male cougar and female leopard produced a hybrid male cub that was reared by a Fox Terrier bitch at Hagenbeck Tierpark, Hamburg (fostering being normal practice at this time). This male hybrid was intermediate between the cougar and leopard in color and pattern, having faint leopard spots on a cougar ...