Florida panther – conservation efforts have succeeded for now
The Florida panther can be a thorn in the side of economic growth and a barrier to improving the lives of the people of Florida – discuss. It is bit of an anomaly in...
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Inbreeding of wild cats can lead to extinctions in the wild due to unviable population sizes
I feel that humankind is gradually approaching the time when we could argue that the inbreeding of some wild cat species might effectively extinguish them in the wild. Through human activity we have brought...
Conservation of the puma a.k.a. mountain lion – full discussion 2022
Introduction: This page has been refreshed, added-to and republished on February 1, 2022. It needed to be because assessments on conservation of wild species needs to be constantly updated. That said, and regrettably, it...
Cats as American state animals
There are five cats as state animals in America. Florida: Florida Panther (1982 – state animal – actually the state mammal) Maryland: Calico cat (state’s domestic animal and state mammal) New Hampshire: Bobcat (wild...
Catastrophe: Florida panther species stricken with ataxia. Deliberate poisoning?
UPDATE: 10-4-21 – It looks like this is an epidemic of feline leukomyelopathy (FLM) which also affects bobcats. They think it might be a neurotoxin or a virus. They are working on it. It...
Economic expansion in Florida trumps Florida panther conservation
As always, business and economic expansion is more important, at the end of the day, to wild species conservation. And the Trump administration, as we well know, is very keen on economic expansion in...
Puma/bobcat Hybrid Florida?
Here are a couple of screenshots from a camera trap video in the Florida Everglades. The camera was positioned extremely well. The cat genuinely looks like a puma/bobcat hybrid. There is no escaping that...
Cougars in Eastern USA are Florida Panthers, Escaped Captives or Have Dispersed from the West
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...
Do black pumas (cougars) exist?
Black pumas are melanistic pumas (aka: cougars, mountain lions). They are also called black panthers. Melanistic leopards and jaguars are also called black panthers. Jordan Carlton Schaul of the University of Alaska says that...
Unknown Florida Wildcat
by Tom Haddad (goldsboro, NC) I saw a large strange cat in 1988 in port St.Lucie/Stuart fla. – My wife saw 2 of them. I have tried on many occasions to identify this cat...
The Original Florida Panther Was Black
I am a Florida native. My family goes back before Florida was a state. I used to see the panther in Inverness (see map) when I was a child and they were black, they...
I saw a Florida panther in Marion Oaks, Florida
by Jonathan Figueroa (Tampa FL.) I know this sound unreal but me and one other person about 15 years ago each spotted a “Florida panther” in Marion Oaks, Florida in the western side of...
Can Florida Panthers Be Saved from Extinction?
Can Florida Panthers Be Saved from Extinction? by Sylvia Ann (Washington state, U.S.A.) Puma – there are almost no photos of the Florida puma. Photo by rbglasson (Flickr) What are their chances of survival?...
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