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Mountain Lion
Elaine R. Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via iNaturalist

Cats, otters & other carnivores

Mountain Lion

Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishMountain Lion
DutchPoema
SpanishLeón Americano
Chinese美洲狮
Sranan Tongotigri (general name for the group)
Scientific namePuma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771)

About this species

The cougar ( KOO-gər; Puma concolor), also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large feline native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world. Its range spans Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, the Rocky Mountains and areas in the western United States. Further south, its range extends through Mexico to the Amazon rainforest and the southern Andes Mountains in Patagonia. It is an adaptable generalist species, occurring in most American habitat types. It prefers habitats with dense underbrush and rocky areas for stalking but also lives in open areas.

The cougar is largely solitary. Its activity pattern varies from diurnality and cathemerality to crepuscularity and nocturnality between protected and non-protected areas, and is apparently correlated with the presence of other predators, prey species, livestock and humans. It is an ambush predator that pursues a wide variety of prey.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassMammalia
OrderCarnivora
FamilyFelidae
GenusPuma

In Suriname

1,161Records in Suriname
5iNaturalist observations
1961First record
2025Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Sipaliwini6
  • Para1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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