#0235 · 🦊 mammals

Mountain Lion

🇳🇱 Poema ·Puma concolor

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The cougar ( Puma concolor ), 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 most widespread 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,...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,452iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
18,452 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1771 (255 years ago).