Talk:Cougar

In Distribution and habitat section it starts > The cougar has the largest range of any wild land animal in the Americas, spanning 110 degrees of latitude from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes in Chile. When it should be > The cougar has the largest range of any wild land animal in the Americas, spanning from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes in Chile.

Because there isn't such a thing as 110 latitude or/either 110 longitude also don't make any sense. Someone please make that change, because I yet can't. Noppikalle (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

60N to 50S is 110 degrees of latitude. - UtherSRG (talk) 23:09, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Under Taxonomy and Evolution, it states that Jardine placed the species in the genus Puma in 1834. In reality, the species wasn't place in the genus Puma until 1996, when Nowell and Jackson performed a review, according to the USDA. (Sources: https://www.nrs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/jrnl/2007/nrs_2007_trani_004.pdf https://archive.org/details/Wild-Cats/page/131/mode/2up) Meanwhile, in the source referenced in the article, Jardine does not mention the genus Puma, only the word as an alternative name to cougar, mountain lion, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwittrock (talk • contribs) 21:34, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

You are definitely mistaken, and I recommend to read Jardine's text. – BhagyaMani (talk) 07:26, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Puma used to be bigger, but every family that wasn't the cougar is now extinct. Worgisbor (congregate) 20:54, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Please update the end of the third paragraph under "Relationships with humans > Attacks on humans > In North America" to include the fatal attack in Oregon in 2018.

Proposed edit:

"Washington state was the site of a fatal attack in 2018, its first since 1924.[122] Later in 2018, a hiker was fatally attacked in the Mount Hood National Forest, marking Oregon's first fatal cougar attack in the wild. [153][154] Lightly populated New Mexico reported an attack in 2008, the first there since 1974.[123]"

References:

153 ^ Zach Urness (September 11, 2018) Oregon's first fatal cougar attack in the wild claims hiker near Mount Hood, Statesman Journal.

154 ^ Courtney Flatt (September 21, 2018) Wildlife Officials Conclude They Killed The Cougar Responsible For Hiker's Death, OPB. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved on October 5, 2025. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meeshiefeet (talk • contribs) 18:59, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

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Remove Panther. Panthera is a different genus than Puma. 149.154.1.92 (talk) 02:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: While Panthera is a different genus, cougars are commonly referred to as panthers. Day Creature (talk) 02:47, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

The genus Puma belongs also to the subfamily Felinae rather than just to the Felidae family. This is missing within the infobox. Axzyr (talk) 12:47, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Axzyr: This is intentional. We list minor taxa ranks from the article's subject up to the next major rank, and then generally only minor ranks. As this is a species article, the next major rank is genus, so above there we list only major ranks. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:36, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I see, thank you for the clarification. Axzyr (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2025 (UTC)