Puma Classification and Evolution
The Puma is a large, secretive Cat predominantly found in the mountains from southern Canada to the tip of South America.
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Puma concolor (Linnaeus)
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(py´m) or cougar(k´gr), New World member of the cat family, Felis concolor.
Puma Cats belonging to the New World ranging North from Patagonia to Canada. Known by different names as cougar, mountain lion, catamount , and panther.
The Puma is found in (but not necessarily limited to) the United States of America. It has a simple stomach, as all Carnivora's do. Carnivora's in general are distributed world-wide.
The puma has the largest range of any mammal in the Western Hemisphere (with the exception of humans). They are found from Canada to Argentina. In North America, they can be found from British Columbia and southern Alberta to California and Texas.
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The puma has the largest range of any mammal in the western hemisphere (with the exception of humans). It was at one time found throughout North, Central and South America, but is now limited to 'isolated islands' of its former range.
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WILDLIFE SPECIES: Puma concolor TIMING OF MAJOR LIFE HISTORY EVENTS : Breeding season - Mountain lions are polygamous. They are capable of breeding throughout the year, and successful litters can be produced any month of the year [56].
Puma yaguarondi (Herpailurus yaguarondi)
Jaguarundi
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Puma or Puma concolor, in the cat family, Felidae, is also called mountain lion or cougar or panther ...
Puma's will eat anything they can catch including insects; however their primary prey in the wild are ungulates - they especially like deer.
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The puma has plain colors like the lion but it is abundent in different sizes. Pumas in rainforests are smaller, reddish, with short bristly fur showing faint spots or horizontal stripes on the upper forelegs as adults.
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A young cougar at Portland Zoo, Oregon.
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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.
The Mountain Lion, also known as the Cougar, Puma, Panther, Catamount and Onca, is North America's largest member of the Cat Family. Of all our predatory mammals, it is exceeded in size only by the bears. Large males measure up to 2.
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.
Puma vs. Human? Attacks on humans are rare, but do occur, especially as humans encroach on wildlands and impact the availability of the puma's traditional prey.
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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.
Puma concolor coryi
The Florida panther, Florida's state animal, is one of the most endangered mammals on earth. It is tawny brown on the back and pale gray underneath.
Puma (Felis concolor)
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.
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Cougars weigh 75 to 250 pounds and are 3.5 to 6.5 feet long, with a tail that is one third of their total body length. Males are usually larger than the females.
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Puma (Puma concolor): This shy predator stalks a variety of game in a variety of habitats, including the bears' forest homes.
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the puma or silver-lion reaches a shoulder-height of 50-80 cm and a length of 105-180 cm and with it the sizes of the leopard. The puma was originally...
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Puma concolor
Extirpated; last known record ~1858. Recent sight records are unverified. One confirmed scat, Franklin County (Quabbin Res.), in 1997. U.S. Endangered as Felis concolor couguar.
ADW: Puma concolor: Information
Information about cougars from the Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.
Cougars (Mountain Lions) - WDFW Living with Wildlife
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Genus Puma (puma and jaguarundi)
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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.
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(Puma concolor coryi)
Population: Around 80. Status: Listed as an Endangered Species under the ESA
Trends: Decreasing.
American Lion, Puma concolor.
Young Mountain Lion photographed by Sunland resident taken in haines_cyn_area_4-19-2010
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Mountain lions (Puma concolor) once roamed most of North America, from east to west coast. Their range also extended from southern Argentina and Chile all the way to southeastern Alaska.
Known also as the puma, cougar, and panther, the mountain lion is a highly adaptable wildcat. It lives in habitats ranging from snow-covered mountains to tropical rainforests
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Florida Panther: Puma concolor coryi
Appearance:
Cougar adults are a uniform tan color with lighter fur on their lower chests, belly, and inner legs. Shades of individual animals may vary considerably from grayish to reddish to yellowish.
Florida Cougar (Puma concolor coryi)
The Florida cougar is classified as a member of the order Carnivora (Carnivores) and is a member of the family Felidae. It is also known as the Florida panther and the Florida Puma.
The puma or American lion. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 19:160-163. Dyche, L. L. 1907. A Kansas beaver (Castor canadensis Kuhl). Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 21:165-167. Eleftheriou, B. E. 1967.
eastern cougar (=puma) (Puma (=Felis) concolor cougar)
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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.
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Two early giant cheetah species existed in North America one of which gave rise to the extant puma Puma concolor and the other to Acinonyx pardinensis the progenitor of the extant cheetah. Either the original giant cheetah or A.
White-lipped peccaries are a major prey species of the jaguar (Panthera onca), and are also hunted by puma (Puma concolor) (Mayer and Wetzel, 1987; Schmidt, 1990; Carillo et al., 2002).
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.
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.
The mountain lion (also called cougar, puma, and sometimes panther [as in the Florida panther]) is a being of great physical power, able to leap as high as forty feet in the air, and capable of great speed in closing for the kill.
Despite being hunted in most of their range, puma numbers appear to be stable or increasing in North America because states have put restrictions on the number of pumas being harvested and there has been better management of ungulate populations and ...
: Predators include, Golden Eagle, Red tail Hawk, Puma, Black Bear and Humans. The Species is highly vulnerable to extinction and have been saved by the work of the Vancouver Island Marmot Preservation Committee.
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. It has a small head and small, rounded, black-tipped ears.
It is also called the puma, cougar, catamount and mountain lion.
For more info, check with the Florida Panther Society and Florida Panther Net.
This powerful predator roams the Americas, where it is also known as a puma, cougar, and catamount. This big cat of many names is also found in many habitats, from Florida swamps to Canadian forests.
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Other names for cougar:
Puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther, painter lion, Mexican lion.
Shortly, it will be able to run as fast as a man which is just as well. Almost 50% of young guanacos (known as Chulengos) fail to make it to their first birthday. Most are killed by Puma Puma concolor.
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The cougar, is also known as a puma, panther, catamount, or mountain lion, is a large sized wild cat.
A large cat (mountain lion, cougar, puma, panther).
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Mountain lions are found in very diverse habitats. They can be found in places from northern Canada to the southern tip of South America. Some other common names for the mountain lion are cougar and puma.
Many animals have adapted to various different biomes and include the Elk and Ibex of the Alpine biome, the Lynx and Moose of the Boreal biome and the Addax and Puma of the Desert biome, plus many more.
the continued fragility of the species: four individuals were believed to have been killed by hunting and five died during the release phase in the release pens. Further losses were attributed to 'natural' predation from large cats such as the Puma ...
 See also: Deer, Jaguar, Lion, Coyote, Bear
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