Gotta love Felis concolor, the puma, cougar, mountain lion, nitney lion. It's a housecat upsized to bigger than an African leopard and has similar habits to the leopard, though it tends to bury its prey rather than stashing it in a tree. This species is supremely adaptable and is the most widespread big cat in the world with a range from Patagonia to the Canadian tundra. They are adapting to urban habitats and have been found in the northeastern US where they had been hunted to extinction. The genetically isolated Florida Panter subspecies has been reinvigorated by the introduction of 13 urban adapted Texas cougars. Urban TX females haven't been able to raise lots of kits in the Everglades, but many Texas cougar males have been quite successful with the Florida Panther females. Watch out Florida, the genetic bottleneck is gone.
