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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Townsend, Montana, USA: This short video neatly sums up a lot about the relationship between America’s mountain lion (puma, cougar) and people. This iconic wild cat, which is so closely associated with America (but which is found in all the … Continue reading →
There will be a dispute about this but I believe that I have a definitive record for the largest or heaviest (should be the same) mountain lion on record because it was certified by the U.S. Biological Survey. The cat … Continue reading →
The policy of conservation officerso in the area of Penticton1, British Columbia, Canada, is to shoot dead a cougar (even a young one2) if it mauls someone’s dog and kills a cat. Conservation officers do this because it indicates a … Continue reading →
NBC Washington have questioned whether the cat videoed by a Ring door bell security camera is a mountain lion or a domestic cat. There is the usual hype. The lady who checked her Ring security camera said that the cat … Continue reading →
The eastern puma is extinct because they were extirpated from the eastern United States by the late 1890s. In other words they were eradicated or completely destroyed through hunting and trapping in that part of the United States of America. … Continue reading →
