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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

Similar species: Carnivorans
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Uploaded Dec 14, 2015. Captured Jan 1, 2011 06:55 in Y-205, Torres de Paine, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, Chile.
  • Canon EOS 7D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/512s
  • ISO400
  • 400mm