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Mountain lion warning sign in California, U.S. Due to the expanding human population, cougar ranges increasingly overlap with areas inhabited by humans. [105] Attacks on humans are very rare, as cougar prey recognition is a learned behavior and they do not generally recognize humans as prey. [106]
Mountain lions in the greater Los Angeles region are consciously shifting their activity to avoid interacting with human residents, a new study has found. Big cats living in areas with higher ...
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).
[5] Tristan Scott of the Flathead Beacon wrote, "Path of the Puma doesn't sugarcoat the risks of predators living among humans — mountain lions live at the intersection of human landscapes, livelihoods and lifestyles — but it points out the critical role predatory species play in the natural world." [6]
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 ...
Paradoxically, if humans carry out a cougar cull, “conflict is more likely since you disrupt the population structure that the mountain lions are maintaining on their own,” research suggests.
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.
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