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The cougar is also commonly known as mountain lion, puma, mountain cat, catamount, or panther. The sub-population in Florida is known as the Florida panther. Over 130 attacks have been documented in [1] North America in the past 100 years, with 28 attacks resulting in fatalities.
The cougar (Puma concolor) (/ ˈ k uː ɡ ər /, KOO-gər), sometimes called the mountain lion, catamount, puma, or panther is a large small 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.
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).
Wildlife officials killed a mountain lion they suspected of attacking goats — and a pet dog — in Colorado. The first report of a mountain lion attacking goats came in Feb. 1 from a property in ...
The last confirmed fatal mountain lion attack was in 2004, 20 years before a man lost his life on Saturday ... Since then, there have been about a dozen attacks on humans by mountain lions in the ...
Jackie Winston of Cambria had a surprise guest at her front door soon after midnight early Monday morning — a large mountain lion.. Her Ring security system’s camera captured a 12-second video ...
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 hunter feared for his safety, officials said.