variants
also panther
as in cougars
a large tawny cat of the wild
the panther is surprisingly difficult to spot
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Noun
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The sanctuary lost one Bengal tiger, four cougars, one African caracal, two Canada lynx, one Geoffroy cat, one Bengal cat, one Eurasian lynx, four bobcats and five African servals.—
Katherine Hignett,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024 -
Inside, the girl’s mother frantically yells through the glass panes to scare the cougar away, but to no avail.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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The department is working with a United States Department of Agriculture trapper to find the cougars and haze them away from the area, which usually involves hounds sniffing out the cougar’s location, the spokesperson said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacramento Bee,
15 Jan. 2025
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The sanctuary lost one Bengal tiger, four cougars, one African caracal, two Canada lynx, one Geoffroy cat, one Bengal cat, one Eurasian lynx, four bobcats and five African servals.—
Katherine Hignett,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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While overall capybaras are not considered an endangered species, there are lots of vicious predators after them, including jaguars, pumas, caimans, snakes like the boa constrictor, and birds of prey like the caracara and black vulture, among others.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
26 Dec. 2024
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But keep your eyes open—the area also boasts the world’s highest density of puma, Patagonia’s apex predator.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
23 Dec. 2024
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