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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.
Our week-long unit plan includes five days of engaging lesson plans delving into this captivating, powerful mammal, sparking discussions on the lion’s imposing physical appearance, their arid ...
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).
The South American cougar (Puma concolor concolor), also known as the Andean mountain lion [4] or puma, [5] is a cougar subspecies occurring in northern and western South America, from Colombia and Venezuela to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. [6] It is the nominate subspecies.
“Mountain lions have the largest home ranges’ of any land mammal in the Americas, spanning anywhere from 30 to 125 square miles in habitats from mountains to swamps,” the U.S. Humane Society ...
It sounds like the plot of a Disney movie: a mountain lion named P-22, trapped from finding a mate by the Los Angeles freeway, becomes famous and inspires the construction of the world’s largest ...
The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as puma, mountain lion, mountain cat, catamount or panther, depending on the region, is a mammal of the family Felidae, native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere , extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern ...
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