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cougar

[koo-ger] / ˈku gər /
NOUN
large wildcat of the Americas
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And a cougar attacks in a very different way than a bear does.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The research comes as wolf and cougar territories increasingly overlap across the western United States.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Between 2016-24, researchers recorded 12 adult cougar deaths, two of which were caused by wolves.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Pratt’s stuffed cougar, representing the late P-22 whose bachelor life trapped in Griffith Park helped inspire the project, sat placidly amid workers moving native plants onto the site.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

In the old Alamo games, Hester had often been a cougar or a wolf, and once or twice a rattlesnake, but mostly a mockingbird.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman