Tennesseeans want to know if there are mountain lions (pumas, cougars) in Tennessee. For non-America residents, this state is in the east of the US. The experts have long said that mountain lions don’t exist in the eastern half to two-thirds of America due to over-hunting and habitat loss. That’s the standard answer. It’s …
There is a simple reason why mountain lions are called painters. ‘Painter’ is a local American name for the puma (Felis concolor). Many early white settlers to America referred to the puma as the American panther. The word ‘panther‘ was corrupted to ‘painter’. In many rural districts of the mid-western and eastern US this …
I am convinced that a calling sound made by the mountain lion is the same sound with two names. This is because the sound is hard to describe and is a cross between a chirp and a whistle.
Do pumas eat penguins? Although I can’t find any hard scientific evidence that penguins are a prey item to the puma, it seems that their distributions overlap (just) in Peru and Chile and if so pumas might eat penguins. It depends if the puma range extends to the sea shore. I doubt that it does because pumas like tree cover.
I felt a need to embed this video on the website because it’s a good example of how to deal with a mountain lion who has wandered into the suburban environment. There was no shooting which I love. I have read stories in the past of cougars being shot because they have wandered down …
The Eastern Cougar has been extinct in America for at least 70 years. However, it remained on the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife despite being classified as extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It looks as though the authorities, in their hearts, had decided that this beautiful wild cat species …
‘Cost’ means purchase price and maintenance costs. The latter (maintenance expenses) is far more than the former. Buyers should be aware of this. There is nothing on the internet or in books telling me how much a mountain lion (puma) costs in 2017. It is possible that it is very hard to buy a …
The mountain lion has the most names of all the wild cat species. It is also known as the puma, cougar, panther, painter, catamount, Theodore Roosevelt wrote in 1901: “No American beast has been the subject of so much loose writing or of such wild fables as the cougar. Even its name is unsettled. …
