puma

Although Santa Cruz banned puma hunting in 2025, illegal persecution continues.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A puma named Muluk seemed sure that South Korea will triumph against the Czech Republic, and six giraffes hedged their bets with the Democratic Republic of Congo over Colombia.

From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026

A SoCal hiker said she thankfully remembered what to do when she encountered the puma — yelling, facing the cat, trying to look big — until it ran off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

When the research team applied population models to the data, the results showed that puma predation alone was unlikely to drive the Monte Leon penguin colony to extinction.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2026

But the Song of the Family had become as fierce and sharp and feline as the snarl of a female puma.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

Suraci and colleagues instead focused on the Olympic Peninsula, where mountain lions -- variously known as cougars, pumas or panthers -- have long been established.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

The other involved smaller predators that share the landscape with pumas.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

Despite cities’ trash, speeding cars, dogs, and humans, capybaras see plenty of upsides in urban riverside living: water, food, and shelter—plus no pumas, who have been known to eat young capybaras.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

For decades these animals – lions, tigers, pumas, cheetahs and jaguars – have been a sign of power, status and even political fealty in the country.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2025

The animals from miles around came to drink from the little pools, and the wild sheep and the deer, the pumas and raccoons, and the mice— all came to drink.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck