Mountain Lion
Puma concolor
The mountain lion is also known as the cougar, puma, panther, and catamount, and is the largest wild cat in North America. Its fur is beige in color and it has a white belly.
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Mountain Lion
The Mountain Lion is also called a cougar, puma, panther, or a catamount. It lives only in the Western hemisphere--it can be found from Canada to the top of South America.
Mountain lions are carnivores (meat eaters) and generally hunt in daylight where there are no humans.
Mountain Lion
: Family Felidae : Felis concolor Linnaeus
Description. A large, long-tailed, unspotted cat; body long and lithe; tail more than half the length of head and body, rounded in cross section, and black-tipped; claws long, sharp, and curved; ...
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Life History Mountain Lions are relatively uncommon, secretive animals.
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Puma - New World member of the cat family, Felis concolor.
Mountain Lion
Puma concolor
The Mountain Lion (Puma concolor) is also known as Puma or Cougar. This cat is widespread but scarce in western North America and it ranges southward into South America.
Mountain lions are large, lean cats with a coat that ranges in color from yellow-brown to gray-brown. The fur on their back is darker in color compared to their belly, whic is a pale, creamy buff color.
Mountain Lion Behaviour
No observations regarding Mountain Lion behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
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Mountain Lion
Felis Concolor
Range:
The mountain lion has the widest distribution of any wild cat from Canada to South America. Formerly distributed throughout North America, the mountain lion is now found mostly in the remote areas of the western U.
The mountain lion died after being struck by an SUV in the City of Milford, near Exit 55 of the Merritt Parkway. The driver of the vehicle was unhurt.
Cougar / Mountain Lion
Cougars (sometimes referred to as "mountain lions" or "puma") were found throughout most of Minnesota prior to European settlement, though never in large numbers. Today they are rarely seen but do occasionally appear.
OTHER NAMES: Mountain Lion, Cougar, Panther, Painter, Catamount (Young and Goldman 1946).
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Driving home from work at 10:30pm Friday evening, I hit my brakes for what I thought would be deer. No, it was a mountain lion crossing the road just east of the small train bridge on Hwy 72.
Mountain Lion
Felis concolor Linnaeus
Description: The mountain lion presently is extinct in Kansas. It can be distinguished by: 1) large size, 2) relatively small, rounded head, 3) short, round, ...
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Leading by Example
Several years ago I went to a wildlife farm, where I met a mountain lion, who was pacing back and forth in a small cage.
Mountain Lion
Has no real natural predators!
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Prefers to hunt at night than during the day! ...
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The mountain lion patrols the canyonlands.
The Mountain Lion
The Mountain Lion, also known as the Cougar, Panther or Puma, is the most widely distributed cat in the Americas. It is unspotted -- tawny-colored above overlaid with buff below.
Mountain lions are the largest species of cat native to North America. Their coats are typically a uniform silver-gray, tawny or reddish-brown in color although some are occasionally melanistic (black) and rarely albino.
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A cougar can jump upward 18 feet from a sitting position. They can leap up to 40 feet horizontally.
Cougars cannot roar like a lion, but they can make calls like a human scream.
Both mountain lions and wolves occurred in Massachusetts in colonial times but do not occur here now.
Bears, mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, and humans.
Habitat
Coastal forests, alpine meadows, dry desert valleys, and snowy mountain ridges; North America: Rocky Mountains from north-central British Columbia to southwestern United States.
Mountain Lion (alternative) . Felis concolor (scientific)
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Cougar, Mountain Lion, Florida Panther, puma, catamount and screamer
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The mountain lion has the greatest natural distribution of any mammal in the Western Hemisphere.
Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion, Panther, or Catamount
The Cougar, Puma, Mountain Lion, Panther, or Catamount (Felis concolor) is a fierce that lives deep in deciduous forests, rain forests, grasslands, and deserts of North America and South America.
Other Names
Mountain Lion
Size
Length: males 1.0m-1.5m; females 0.85m-1.3m. Tail length 63cm - 93cm. Weight: average 62kg for males and 42kg for females.
aka cougar, mountain lion, panther, and more
Puma concolor
Silent and elusive, pumas are extremely rare in Minnesota; few Minnesotans have ever seen these large cats in the wild.
Coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, and fishers compete directly with wolverines for food [55]. Wolverines also raid caches created by red foxes and grizzly bears [75]. Wolverines commonly raid baited traps and kill trapped furbearers [54].
Also known as:
Mountain Lion, Puma, Florida Panther, Catamount
Sexual Dimorphism:
Males are significantly heavier than females.
Throughout the American continents, the cougar is known as puma, panther, painter, mountain lion, catamount, king cat, or even the American lion. Secretive and solitary, the cougar is rarely seen by humans.
The cougar (Puma concolor), also puma, mountain lion, or panther, is a mammal of the Felidae family, native to the Americas.
I have always been interested in herpetology as well as numerous other mammalian animal models such as bats, mountain lions, bobcats, and wombats. Since I was little I have been moving around the world.
Characteristics The Florida panther is a subspecies of the mountain lion. It has short, light brown fur and a white muzzle, chest and stomach. It has a long tail with a slight crook in it.
Cougars, also called mountain lions, were originally native to Michigan, but were extirpated from Michigan around the turn of the century. The last known wild cougar taken in the state occurred in 1906 near Newberry.
The bobcat is one of three native cats in the Pacific region of the United States, along with the mountain lion and the Canadian lynx (Ingles 1965). It has a small head, heavy body, long legs and large, padded paws.
The puma, also known as the mountain lion, cougar, or, in Florida, the Florida panther, originally ranged from northern Canada to the southern tip of South America.
This secretive feline is also known as the puma, panther, catamount, and mountain lion. Cougars are fast sprinters, skilled climbers and can leap 18-23 feet.
Also known as cougar, catamount, mountain lion, panther
Range:
The puma has the largest range of any mammal in the western hemisphere (with the exception of humans).
The puma is also known as cougar, mountain lion, panther and catamount. Their fur is beige in color and they have a white belly. Adults do not have spots. They have powerful limbs and can leap distances as far as 40 feet.
This cat inhabits North and South America and is also known as the cougar or mountain lion. It is about the size of a leopard.
Pumas are also known as mountain lions or cougars.
The ancient Incan city of Cuscos is thought by many to have been built to resemble a Puma. Imagine that - designing an entire city to look like one of these noble cats.
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A cat of many names, the Puma is also known as the Cougar, Panther or Mountain Lion.
They tend to run as a group when threatened by predators such as mountain lions, and can spit up to a distance of 6 feet, with great aim.
Family group: Solitary.
Diet: Shoots and plant stems.
Main Predators: Mountain lions, jaguar, humans.
Distribution Mountainous terrain at elevations 2,000-4,500 m / 6,400-14,400 ft. in the equatorial Andes (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).
Known by different names as cougar, mountain lion, catamount , and panther. In the northerly areas it ranges, it has a reddish or grayish brown on the upper parts with lighter underparts. The adult male measures 7 to 8 ft. long .
Raccoon predators include mountain lions, bobcats, gray wolves, red foxes, coyotes, fishers, and owls. Humans hunt and trap raccoons.
It is also called the puma, cougar, catamount and mountain lion.
For more info, check with the Florida Panther Society and Florida Panther Net.
Predators: Wolves, mountain lions, bears, and humans are predators of Bighorn sheep.
By Any Other Name: This buff-colored feline, also known as the puma, panther or mountain lion, is highly adaptable and at home in tropical rain forests, high mountains, conifer forests and deserts.
The Puma, also known as the Cougar or Mountain Lion, is a large, solitary cat found in the Americas .
Barbary Sheep can live up to 15 years in the wild, and their natural predators are man, coyotes, and mountain lions. When threatened, they will most often just freeze rather than run.
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The Florida panther is a highly endangered subspecies of mountain lion.
Status:
Endangered.
This species has incredibly powerful jaws and is much stronger than the Mountain Lion; it can haul a full-grown cow for a mile or more. Although a great traveler, the Jaguar has been seen only rarely in recent times in the U.S.
This is possibly where it gets its name.
The bobcat likes to live and hunt alone.
The growl of the bobcat is easily confused with the growl of a mountain lion.
The bobcat is the most common wildcat in North America.
In the desert, off-road vehicles, trespassing cattle, poaching in the 1960s and early '70s, drought, disease and Mountain Lion predation have worked together to push this population towards the edge of extinction in some locations.
stretched out in front and its head resting on them, much in the same way that a dog does. It is the only small cat that sleeps in this manner.
In 1968, North American fur traders imported a total of 129,000 ocelot pelts.
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 See also: Lion, Deer, Coyote, Puma, Cougar
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