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THE PUMA - CAT OF ONE COLOUR (Puma concolor)

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Washington state wildlife biologists have caught and tagged a 197-pound (89-kilogram) cougar.
State carnivore research scientist Brian Kertson called the cat a monster. He said it's so muscular that the first tranquilizer dart he shot at it popped out as the cat flexed.

https://komonews.com/news/local/197-pound-cougar-captured-by-state-biologists-near-chewelah
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(01-28-2019, 11:53 PM)nobody Wrote:
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Washington state wildlife biologists have caught and tagged a 197-pound (89-kilogram) cougar.
State carnivore research scientist Brian Kertson called the cat a monster. He said it's so muscular that the first tranquilizer dart he shot at it popped out as the cat flexed.

https://komonews.com/news/local/197-pound-cougar-captured-by-state-biologists-near-chewelah
That's a huge cougar, nice find.
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Originally posted by @nobody 




Washington state wildlife biologists have caught and tagged a 197-pound (89-kilogram) cougar.
State carnivore research scientist Brian Kertson called the cat a monster. He said it's so muscular that the first tranquilizer dart he shot at it popped out as the cat flexed.

https://komonews.com/news/local/197-pound-cougar-captured-by-state-biologists-near-chewelah
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beautiful Bobcat and Cougar
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At one time, there were cougars here in Ohio where I live, and seeing as though cougars are making their way back to the east, I just get the feeling that one day, they'll wander into my home state, and one of my biggest wishes is to be around to see it happen.
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Bad News Friends...

The Eastern Puma Has Been Officially Declared Extinct
 February 4, 2019 

The majestic large cats historically roamed every state of the US east of the Mississippi River.
But in the latest devastating news from the animal kingdom, the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the animals extinct on Sunday, removing the Eastern puma from the list of endangered species for the last time.

The Eastern puma’s plight has been ongoing for over a century, and by 1900 they had all but vanished due to systematic hunting and trapping. In fact, Mark Elbroch, the lead scientist for the puma program at the big cats conservation group "Panthera", said the cats have been ‘long extinct’.

The the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened an extensive review into the status of the eastern cougar back in 2011.
The forests and coastal marsh predators were only declared endangered in 1973, even though no sightings of the wild cats had been documented for three decades.

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The last of their kind on record was killed by a hunter in Maine in 1938.

In 2015, federal wildlife biologists concluded pumas elsewhere in the Eastern United States were beyond recovery, and thus no longer warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The cats are the genetic cousin of mountain lions, which still inhabit much of the Western United States, and are related to a small, imperiled population of Florida panthers found only in the Everglades.

They measure up to 8 feet long from head to tail and can weigh as much as 140 pounds (63.5 kg). These beautiful creatures were once the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere.

Then humans happened, and due to an extermination campaign and systematic habitat destruction, the cats are now extinct. Some were trapped and killed for their fur Angry while others were culled to prevent the cats from interfering with livestock.

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But marking the Eastern puma as extinct might not mean the end, according to some biologists, and the new status could mean more possibilities for conservation, with the help of the abundant cousins.

Quote:Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said:
”We need large carnivores like cougars, which would curb deer overpopulation and tick-borne diseases that threaten human health, so we hope Eastern and Midwestern states will reintroduce them.”

Meanwhile, the protection of all animals, including livestock, is sparking huge debate across the globe, with vegan movements and lifestyle choices becoming ever more popular.

Source: National Geographic

https://beyondblindfold.com/the-eastern-puma-has-been-officially-declared-extinct/
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(02-04-2019, 09:01 PM)Sanju Wrote: Bad News Friends...

The Eastern Puma Has Been Officially Declared Extinct
 February 4, 2019 

The majestic large cats historically roamed every state of the US east of the Mississippi River.
But in the latest devastating news from the animal kingdom, the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the animals extinct on Sunday, removing the Eastern puma from the list of endangered species for the last time.

The Eastern puma’s plight has been ongoing for over a century, and by 1900 they had all but vanished due to systematic hunting and trapping. In fact, Mark Elbroch, the lead scientist for the puma program at the big cats conservation group "Panthera", said the cats have been ‘long extinct’.

The the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened an extensive review into the status of the eastern cougar back in 2011.
The forests and coastal marsh predators were only declared endangered in 1973, even though no sightings of the wild cats had been documented for three decades.

*This image is copyright of its original author

The last of their kind on record was killed by a hunter in Maine in 1938.

In 2015, federal wildlife biologists concluded pumas elsewhere in the Eastern United States were beyond recovery, and thus no longer warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The cats are the genetic cousin of mountain lions, which still inhabit much of the Western United States, and are related to a small, imperiled population of Florida panthers found only in the Everglades.

They measure up to 8 feet long from head to tail and can weigh as much as 140 pounds (63.5 kg). These beautiful creatures were once the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western Hemisphere.

Then humans happened, and due to an extermination campaign and systematic habitat destruction, the cats are now extinct. Some were trapped and killed for their fur Angry while others were culled to prevent the cats from interfering with livestock.

*This image is copyright of its original author

But marking the Eastern puma as extinct might not mean the end, according to some biologists, and the new status could mean more possibilities for conservation, with the help of the abundant cousins.

Quote:Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said:
”We need large carnivores like cougars, which would curb deer overpopulation and tick-borne diseases that threaten human health, so we hope Eastern and Midwestern states will reintroduce them.”

Meanwhile, the protection of all animals, including livestock, is sparking huge debate across the globe, with vegan movements and lifestyle choices becoming ever more popular.

Source: National Geographic

https://beyondblindfold.com/the-eastern-puma-has-been-officially-declared-extinct/

There is however, one Eastern US population still surviving, the Florida Panther, though it's threatened: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-e...85985.html

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Wait a minute, what's going on? Why is the Romanian flag shown?
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(02-04-2019, 10:40 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote: Wait a minute, what's going on? Why is the Romanian flag shown?
Yeah, the location indicator broke I think from yesterday, it showing Romania.
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This man was lucky, that no earphones and music when running. Now he heard something and could react faster.

https://cpw.state.co.us/aboutus/Pages/Ne...ewsID=6832
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I found this article, love the title. 

www.wilderutopia.com/environment/wildlife/mountain-lions-manage-ecosystems-not-sport-hunters-by-jack-eidt/]https:// http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/...jack-eidt/[/url]
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Shot it and took it to the wildlife office whole. Wt. 209 pounds. That pushes up against Teddy Roosevelt’s 229 pounder. Truly a big cat.

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From hunters

https://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/64558-huge-cat-on-the-navajo/
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Here are some different pictures from cougars and jaguars from different regions.

Argentina (similar in size)

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Brazil, Pantanal (cougar's the smaller one)

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Central America (sizes overlap)


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Now I can't find any comparison for the cougars and jaguars in Mexico, but the cougars tend to be the bigger one of the two. North American cougars (e.g. British Columbia) cougars are bigger than any jaguar, with the exception of Pantanal jaguars. Cougars from the Pantanal region are way smaller than the jaguars. Florida panthers are also very small.

I find it interesting how the sizes change geographically.
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(03-06-2019, 12:54 PM)Luipaard Wrote: Here are some different pictures from cougars and jaguars from different regions.

Argentina (similar in size)

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Brazil, Pantanal (cougar's the smaller one)

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Central America (sizes overlap)


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Now I can't find any comparison for the cougars and jaguars in Mexico, but the cougars tend to be the bigger one of the two. North American cougars (e.g. British Columbia) cougars are bigger than any jaguar, with the exception of Pantanal jaguars. Cougars from the Pantanal region are way smaller than the jaguars. Florida panthers are also very small.

I find it interesting how the sizes change geographically.
Jaguars in Los Llanos de Venezuela are very close in size to the Pantanal Jaguars, they are bigger than the Pumas from British Columbia, Pumas from la Patagonia in Chile are very close in size to the Pumas from British Columbia.
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Big male Puma from la Patagonia, Chile in Torres del Paine National Park
Credit to @wideuniverse

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