What affects us affects cats
Here’s a fine photograph of a pack of coyotes who have chased two young pumas, aka mountain lions. The pumas found sanctuary on top of a large wooden fence – a rail fence – where they are in a standoff. They remained there for more than an hour. The puma is wonderfully athletic and …
The cougar is not a big cat meaning it is not part of the group of cats called “big cats”. It is also worth mentioning at the same time that: “the size of this cat is frequently overestimated¹….” Some Peruvian pumas only weigh around 30 kilograms which is 66 pounds; about the average weight …
Puma, mountain lion and cougar are the three most common names for the puma, the large wild cat that has the largest distribution in the Western Hemisphere. “Puma” is the more scientific name of these three. However, “cougar” is used a lot more in America as a name for this wild cat. It is …
The recent sensationalized story about the lion wandering around Essex, England prompts me to ask “Are the British able to assess the size of big cats?” I wonder whether the British know what these cats are really like. I would certainly doubt if the average British person knew much about the wild cat species …
As the population of the United States gradually grows and the activities of people expands across the wide open spaces of the grand American landscape, what was once the habitat and home of the mountain lion becomes a shopping mall or a eight-lane highway. Apparently only one puma (another name for the mountain lion) …
I am pleased to be able to bring you some wild cat vocalisations thanks to Balázs Buzás. He is currently the Head of Department in the Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife (BCEAW) in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Before that he worked with cat species and other carnivores in the Rare Species Conservation Centre …
by ERIC S. STACY (KENNER, LOUISIANA) Around 1998 while bowhunting whitetail deer on a public Wildlife Management Area, namely Red River WMA located in central Louisiana I spotted an approximately 100+ lb male cougar. At first I thought this was a doe sneaking along the tree line toward the tree opening I was hunting …
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 are now the color they are because they were cross bred with the cats from out west. This happened back …
