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Eastern cougar
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| Credit: Robert Savannah |
Ghost cat. Catamount. Puma. Painter. Panther. Mountain lion.
Cougar. The many names given the nation's largest cat convey the mystery surrounding this solitary hunter. But the variety of
names also demonstrates the cougar's original distribution across the North American continent and from southern Canada to the tip of South
America.
Once the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, cougars have been eliminated in most of
their native habitat. Only western cougars still live in large enough numbers to maintain breeding populations, and they live on wild lands in the
western United States and Canada. Observations of western cougars provide biologists with information for the cats that once lived east of the
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Cougar Stories
Between March 2007 and November 2010, people from 21 states (Maine to Georgia and west to Oklahoma) and from Quebec and Ontario, Canada, told us their cougar stories. You can read them here.
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| Credit: Robert Savannah |
Evidence of cougars may be documented using The Cougar Network's methodology. If you have such information, please submit it to The Cougar Network.
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The Five-Year Review
More Information
Links to Non-Fish and Wildlife Service Sites
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Last updated:
December 21, 2011
