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cougar

[koo-ger] / ˈku gər /
NOUN
large wildcat of the Americas
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Biologists aren’t currently following any male cougars in P-77’s habitat, so they suspect the father might have come from nearby mountains and then went back.

From Seattle Times

Members of local Indigenous communities worked alongside leaders of the natural history museum to bury the cougar privately with a tribal ceremony.

From New York Times

Due to its isolation, the region is home to one of the best wildlife habitats in Eastern Washington — hikers should keep an eye and ear out for black bears, moose, mule deer and cougars.

From Seattle Times

Cleansing the landscape of all that they found threatening, European settlers all but eradicated wolves and cougars.

From Scientific American

That includes building the state’s first wildlife highway overpasses for free-roaming cougars, black bears, bighorn sheep and other creatures.

From Seattle Times