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COUGAR (Felis concolor)

The cougar is a carnivora, they eat deer, sheep, goats, and other same size game. Location- Widespread over North and South America, except the Arctic.

The status of the Cougar is threatened.

It is also known as the Mountain Lion, Panther, Painter, Puma, and Catamount.The western cougar is not threatened but the eastern cougar is threatened.

Scientist and Wildlife biologist believe that the eastern cougar was native at one point.

From the early settlers and early 1900's people have been killing off the cougars. The population is slowly coming back since then.

This is why you rarely see a cougar, when people have sightings these large cats it

makes headlines in papers.