Re: [GZG] Re: New Toys from GZG

On 3/17/06, gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
<gzg-l-request@lists.csua.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:54:17 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Michael Robert Blair <pellinoire@yahoo.com>

> Are a puma and a cougar not the same beast though?
> That North American big cat [1] with far too many
> names (four at least plus a Latin tag)?

It's worse than that. Regionally it is known as a puma, a cougar, a
mountain lion, a catamount, a painted cat, and a panther (but not to
be confused with a "black panther", which is actually a variant of
leopard/jaguar). That's not counting the name of the critter in native
dialects.

It ranges from northwest British Columbia to Southern Argentina and
Chile.

In North America it's most commonly called a cougar or mountain lion.

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