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Puma

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Family:Felidae
Genus:Puma
Species:P. concolor
Binomial name
Puma concolor
(Linnaeus, 1771)

The puma (Puma concolor) is a type of large cat found in North and South America. It is also known by the regional names of cougar, mountain lion, panther, catamount, and painted cat. The term black panther is more commonly associated with the black color variation of the leopard or the jaguar. At least in the US, panther by itself refers to a puma. That said, pumas are genetically closer to leopards than to lions.

1 Subspecies

The Florida panther is a rare subspecies of puma that lives in the swamps of southern Florida in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, especially in the EvergladesThe Florida Everglades is a subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the U. state of Florida, specifically in parts of Monroe, Collier, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties. Although much modified by agricultural development in cen. There is currently a widespread effort in Florida to try to save the remaining population of the state's native panthers, as their numbers are extremely sparse.

2 Population and distribution

Before the modern human population explosion in the Americas, the mountain lion ranged from northern British ColumbiaBritish Columbia or simply B. French: la Colombie-Britannique is the westernmost of Canada's provinces. It was the sixth province to join the confederation of Canada (in 1871). As of 2004, the population was 4,168,123 British Columbians . Geography Its ca (in CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe) to the southern AndesSee also architecture with non-sequential dynamic execution scheduling (ANDES). Please note that the geology in this article reflects views from the first decade of the 20th century. It is a good example of the descriptive geology of that time, but becaus (on both the Chilean and Argentinian sides). Even now, it has the biggest range of any New WorldThe New World is one of the names used for the continents of North and South America and adjacent islands collectively, in use since the 16th century. The continents were new to the Europeans, who knew the world consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa land animal, spanning 110 degrees of latitude.





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