puma
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The tragic ending of the young puma in San Dimas comes three months after a year-old female cougar and a 6-month-old male mountain lion were fatally struck by vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Jasper Ridge is far too small to support its own resident puma population.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 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
Small puma populations have been isolated by the freeway, and their offspring were showing signs of birth defects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
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
During that same period, researchers observed a decline in deer activity compared with earlier years when pumas were rarely seen or absent altogether.
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
Mountain lions, also called pumas, cougars, catamounts or panthers, can be found throughout North America, but now are mostly in 15 western states, according to the Mountain Lion Foundation.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2026
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
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