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Canada, British Columbia, near Tofino — Stalked and killed by a four-year-old male cougar at Catface Mountain. [27] [28] 9 September 1989 Jake Thomas Gardipee, 5, Male: USA, Montana, Missoula County, near Evaro — Attacked and killed by a cougar while playing behind his home. The cougar was later killed, and a necropsy was performed at the ...
P-22 (c. 2009/2010 – December 17, 2022) was a wild mountain lion who resided in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, on the eastern side of the Santa Monica Mountains.
The mountain lion king of Griffith Park — a cat known as P-22 — roamed these hills for 10 years. Captured in December 2022, he was euthanized after a team of doctors determined that because of ...
The term catamount, a shortening of name "cat of the mountain", has also been in English use for cougars and other wild cats since at least 1664. [14] The term panther is often used synonymously with cougar, puma, or mountain lion. [15] The Florida population of the North American cougar sub-species is commonly known as the Florida panther.
Officials later euthanized the mountain lion after determining it was a threat to public safety. The cats can weigh up to 150 pounds and be up to eight feet long.
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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).
Following list contains size (weight and length) measurements for wild adult males of each species: Rank Common name ... Lion: Panthera leo: 160–195 [8] [9] (352-429)