cougar
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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 • Mar. 6, 2026
The research comes as wolf and cougar territories increasingly overlap across the western United States.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Between 2016-24, researchers recorded 12 adult cougar deaths, two of which were caused by wolves.
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Coming upon the attack, a nearby neighbor honked their car horn, scaring the cougar away.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2024
In the old Alamo games, Hester had often been a cougar or a wolf, and once or twice a rattlesnake, but mostly a mockingbird.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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