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  2. North American cougar - Wikipedia

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    A cougar in the snow at North Cedar Brook in Boulder, Colorado, the USA. The North American Cougar is a carnivore and its main sources of prey are deer, elk, mountain goats, moose and bighorn sheep. [25] Despite being a large predator, the North American Cougar can also be the prey of larger predators like wolves and bears. [26]

  3. Cougar - Wikipedia

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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. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world.

  4. Florida panther - Wikipedia

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    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. [11] It was reclassified and subsumed to the North American cougar (P. c. couguar) in 2005. [10]

  5. Eastern cougar - Wikipedia

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    The eastern cougar or eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) is a subspecies designation proposed in 1946 for cougar populations in eastern North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The subspecies as described in 1946 was declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011. [ 4 ]

  6. Eastern U.S. cougar declared extinct 80 years after ... - AOL

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    The species has officially been declared extinct and removed from the U.S. endangered species list.

  7. Famous wildlife researcher to be celebrated - AOL

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    The Moscow-based school will honor Maurice Hornocker, a world-renowned cougar expert and former leader of the university's Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, starting Wednesday. As a graduate ...

  8. Puma (genus) - Wikipedia

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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).

  9. Famous wildlife researcher to be celebrated - AOL

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    Sep. 10—This story has been updated from its original version to correct when the event will happen. The University of Idaho will lionize one of its most famous wildlife researchers this week in ...