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Puma Pumas are one of the few big cats that cannot roar, instead they growl, hiss and purr! Cougar,Geotagged,Puma concolor,South Africa Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Puma

Pumas are one of the few big cats that cannot roar, instead they growl, hiss and purr!

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  1. great photo. Such a beautiful face. Unfortunately just recently Melbourne lost our last Puma, They are just so mysterious animal. Posted 12 years ago, modified 12 years ago
    1. They really are stunning creatures, its a shame your zoo lost theirs, sorry to hear that. Posted 12 years ago

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The cougar , also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second-heaviest cat in the New World, after the jaguar. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the.. more

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By Claire Hamilton

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Uploaded Aug 29, 2013. Captured Aug 28, 2013 10:53 in N2, South Africa.
  • Canon EOS 7D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/83s
  • ISO500
  • 400mm