wildlife guide: cougar/puma/mountain lion/panther/catamount/painter/screamer/sneak cat/deer tiger/long tail/catawampus/fire cat/quinquajou edition, ten fun and/or gruesome facts


1. My roommate's father's chicken was killed by the only one in North Carolina.


2. On a wildlife field trip in sixth grade, the caged cougar meowed. Hannah Gunther was there. She can attest.


3. They are very difficult to taxiderm.




(Or so it would seem.)


4. They are said to inhabit Yellowstone but no one ever sees them because they are too stealthy. They are the ninjas of North America.


5. They have the widest range of any animal on the continent, from the Yukon to the Andes. Some people try to distinguish them ("Well, Holmes, that is an south-by-south eastern western wildcat"), but they are deceiving themselves. No matter what you call one, it is tantamount to a catamount.


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7. They hold the world title for Animal With Most Names in A Single Language. There are 40+. I was going to put them all in the title, but my interface balked.


8. My neighbor once hit one with his car. (!!!)


9. Roommate's father's chicken's death notwithstanding, they have been declared extinct back east.


10. 

They are beautiful.

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