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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.
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Cougars hunt at dawn and dusk. They usually prey on deer, although these opportunistic predators also eat coyotes, moose, wild sheep, birds, and rodents. They even kill feral donkeys, an invasive species in California’s Death Valley National Park. The cats silently stalk their prey, then pounce and kill them with a fatal bite to the back of the hea...
Male cougars maintain large territories that overlap with several smaller territories of their mates. About three months after mating, a female gives birth to three or four kittens in a secluded den, where she stays for 10 days. Babies are born with camouflaged, spotted coats that fade into a solid color as they grow. After six weeks, the family wi...
Arguably the world’s most famous cougar was an animal called P-22, whose father was P-001—the first puma to be collared by the National Park Service. Born in the Santa Monica Mountains, P-22 left his birthplace to find his own territory and crossed some of the world’s busiest freeways to reach L.A.’s Griffith Park, part of the Hollywood Hills, wher...
Cougars once roamed nearly all of the United States, but by the early 1900s, they were mostly hunted to extinction in the Midwest and eastern U.S. The Florida panther—a subspecies only found in Florida—survived, though today fewer than 200 individuals remain in the wild. Overall, cougar populations are stable, and the International Union for the Co...
The Cougar is an American reality television series broadcast by TV Land. The series premiered on April 15, 2009, for an eight-episode run, and it concluded on June 3, 2009. Filmed in Los Angeles, California, the series followed Stacey Anderson, a 40-year-old cougar, in
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The cougar (Puma concolor) is a large cat native to the Americas. It is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. Due to its wide range, the cougar has many names, including puma , Mountain lion , catamount , and panther .
The puma (Puma concolor) — also known as the cougar, mountain lion, panther and catamount — lives in 23 countries in the Americas. Despite its wide range, the puma remains poorly understood and its numbers are thought to be declining overall.
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