(1) In Lake County there have been several sightings of a cougar or mountain lion.(2) This was not an African lion but an American mountain lion also known as a cougar or puma, a cat the size of a leopard that was once rare and considered virtually harmless.(3) The island is home to few natural predators (the occasional cougar or midget black bear).(4) A bobcat is another wild cat, about half the size of a cougar , with a stubby tail rather than a long one.(5) I've trudged through waist deep snow up an Idaho mountain after a cougar .(6) The massive stone avalanche fell on the scurrying cougar , and forced the big cat to take refuge in the canyon.(7) Central to this proposition is the recovery of existing top predators such as grizzlies, cougars , and wolves.(8) But except for the Florida felines, as far as one can tell, wild cougars no longer live east of the Mississippi.(9) Except for mating pairs, or mothers with kittens, cougars travel alone, hunting roughly a deer a week to survive.(10) Since the early 1990s, researchers have been applying the technique to spectacled bears, cougars , foxes, pine martens, chimpanzees, gorillas, and many other species.(11) In 2001, two weeks after the state had announced that a few wild cougars might be present, a run-in between car and cougar provided wildlife officials with the first tangible evidence of the cat's existence.(12) She was the only cougar that lived in the Endless Woods, because cougars were extremely rare in those parts.(13) When Europeans settled South Dakota they considered cougars dangerous pests.(14) Their predators include great horned owls, bobcats, cougars , coyotes, and foxes, so wariness is in their blood.(15) Grizzly bears, cougars , owls, woodland caribou and elk live there.(16) Its not unusual for people to see bears, and even cougars , on Burnaby Mountain.