North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar)

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The North American cougar (Puma concolor couguar) is the subspecies of cougars native to North America, and it is possible that cougars in northwest South America (northwest of the Andes) belong to this subspecies: https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/hand...f?#page=33

As I mentioned earlier, the cougar can be found in the vicinity of major American urban areas, such as Los Angeles in California:

Where do mountain lions hunt in Los Angeles? https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/15/12187...ucla-study

Credit: Steve Winter / National Geographic
   
   

Though the Eastern cougar (the type specimen for the subspecies, which had been present in northeastern North America), is classified as extinct or extirpated, within the eastern part of the U.S.A., the Florida panther (formerly Puma concolor coryi / floridana), still exists, thankfully:

Photo of an Eastern cougar by Lavonda Walton of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:
   

Floridan cougar at Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Naples, credit: The National Geographic
   

Floridan panthers fighting:

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