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Puma  Chile,Cougar,Geotagged,Puma concolor,Summer Click/tap to enlarge

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  1. Was this a wild encounter?! Posted 9 years ago
    1. All pictures are wild encounters:-). This was in Torres del Paine NP. We were togheter with a ranger and were following this family of pumas. Posted 9 years ago
      1. OK, I will move it up my list of places to go - they are amazing animals and I would love to see one in the wild! Posted 8 years ago, modified 8 years ago
  2. Is that a good place to see them? I have always wanted to see them in the wild and have considered visiting this park. Posted 8 years ago
    1. Sorry, I forgot to post my reply... Torres was or is still a fantastic an reliable place to spot them. I'm not sure, if Jose, our guide still works. Apparently one of his sona organises the puma watching. Jose is on facebook Posted 8 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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Uploaded Dec 14, 2015. Captured Jan 9, 2011 06:43 in Y-205, Torres de Paine, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, Chile.
  • Canon EOS 7D
  • f/7.1
  • 1/790s
  • ISO200
  • 400mm