A Michael Broad Blog
This is a leading or links page on the Puma cat. The links lead to other pages that expand on the particular topics discussed. As there are links to lots more information, this page contains short summaries on the listed topics. I have tried to cover all the subjects but, in a populist, as …
Nowadays, there really is very little to say about the eastern cougar. And what can be said is in the past tense (but see below). The eastern cougar has been absent from New York state since the late 1800s. There is no longer any distinct subspecies of cougar in Florida since they introduced cougars …
The puma a.k.a. mountain lion and cougar, together with the snow leopard are the two mammalian predators living at the highest elevations above sea level, on the planet. They are, therefore, listed in the Guinness World Records. They state that the snow leopard’s distribution covers 12 countries (their historic range covered 2.5 million square …
These pictures and video are all over the internet and you can see why because no one has seen a puma, aka mountain lion, wandering around and resting on a small iceberg in the middle of what I believe is Lake Argentino. It is not the sea but a large lake in this magnificent …
The bobcat and the mountain lion a.k.a. the puma are definitely in Texas. The ocelot is said by some to be in Texas. You will see a range of opinions on whether the ocelot is in Texas or whether it has become extinct in that state. If it does exist in Texas, it is …
Peru’s Ministry of Culture report that they have discovered a feline figure carved into an arid hillside around 2,000 years ago. This is a geoglyph made in the rocky soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. This huge drawing was gently created by scraping away the top layers of rock and gravel to …
The reason is twofold. This famous wild cat species has a very wide distribution across the Americas although it is shrinking. Also, it has been recognised and recorded for many hundreds of years which has given widely disparate races and peoples time to write about it in their own way. The first reason is …
According to some “experts” there are possibly two wild cat species in Michigan: the Canada lynx and bobcat. The lynx is ‘possible extant’. However, sightings contradict this and it may be reasonable to assume that there are certainly two and possibly three wild cat species in Michigan at the date of this post: bobcat, …
