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cougar

[koo-ger] / ˈku gər /
NOUN
large wildcat of the Americas
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Three days before we were filming that, that was a cougar; we were going to have a live cougar.

From Los Angeles Times

A new study sheds light on the tense relationship between wolves and cougars in Yellowstone National Park.

From Science Daily

To better understand how evolution shaped these sounds, the researchers compared domestic cat meows with those of five wild cat species: African wildcat, European wildcat, jungle cat, cheetah, and cougar.

From Science Daily

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

The determination, released Wednesday, is not the final say but signals a possibility that several clans of the iconic cougars will be listed under the California Endangered Species Act.

From Los Angeles Times