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The cougar (Puma concolor) is a huge feline of the subfamily Felinae. Local to the Americas, its reach ranges from the Canadian Yukon toward the southern Andes in South America and is the most boundless of any huge wild earthly warm blooded creature in the Western Hemisphere. It is a versatile, generalist species, happening in most American territory types. Because of its wide reach, it has numerous names, including mountain lion, jaguar, catamount, puma and painter.

The cougar is the second-biggest feline in the New World after the puma (Panthera onca). Cryptic and generally single essentially, the cougar is appropriately viewed as both nighttime and crepuscular, despite the fact that daytime sightings do happen. Regardless of its size, the cougar is all the more firmly identified with more modest cats, including the homegrown feline (Felis catus) than to any types of the subfamily Pantherinae.

The cougar is a snare hunter that seeks after a wide assortment of prey. Essential food sources are ungulates, especially deer. It likewise chases creepy crawlies and rodents. It lean towards living spaces with thick underbrush and rough zones for following, yet in addition lives in open regions. The cougar is regional and lives at low populace densities. Singular home reaches rely upon territory, vegetation and plenitude of prey. While enormous, it isn't generally the summit hunter in its reach, yielding prey it has executed to pumas, American wild bears, mountain bears, bunches of wolves or coyotes, and (in Florida) to American gators. It is hermitic and for the most part stays away from individuals. Deadly assaults on people are uncommon, however expanded in North America, as more individuals entered cougar natural surroundings and fabricated homesteads.

Serious chasing following European colonization of the Americas and progressing human advancement into cougar territory has made the cougar populaces drop in many pieces of its authentic reach. Specifically, the eastern cougar populace is considered to have been generally extirpated in eastern North America in the start of the twentieth century, except for the disconnected Florida jaguar subpopulation.