A cougar has over 80 different names including: mountain lion, panther and puma! animals.howstuffworks.com…
In 2010, a mother used a dish cloth to fight off a cougar that was mauling her son. She flicked the cougar on the top of the head, and it ran away. The boy needed 22 stitches to close cuts on his scalp. cbc.ca/news/canada/britis…
John Cougar (before he reclaimed his real name) and his band were not allowed to play live on American Bandstand, lip-synch only. So Cougar and band showed up and "played" with instruments that obviously aren't anywhere on the record. youtube.com/watch?v=4Pz36…
The Mercury Cougar alone accounted for nearly 40% of Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division sales in 1967. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer…
By eating herbivores with seeds in their stomachs and then leaving scat across a large range, cougars are able to plant around 94,000 plants a year. atlasobscura.com/articles…
John Mellencamp didn't learn his stage name was changed to John Cougar (for marketing reasons) until he saw it on his first album jacket. His manager said, "You're either going to go with it or we aren't putting the album out." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh…
Cougars are the biggest cat that can purr and meow. youtu.be/BXhfZRE08ko
An 18-month old golden retriever saved her owner from being attacked by a cougar. The dog named Angel threw herself between her owner, 11-year-old Austin Forman, and the cougar. Angel and the cougar fought, the cougar winning until an officer was called and shot it. Angel survived and recovered. cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americ…
The jaguarundi, related to cougars and cheetahs, is a furtive, mostly diurnal, wild feline native to southern North America and South America with relatively short legs, an elongated body, and a long bushy tail. The ears are short and rounded, and its coat is without spots and uniform in color. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jag…
That Puma, Cougar and Mountain Lion are names for the same exact animal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pum…
Cougars are the largest cat to meow/purr. Large cats that roar are incapable of making these noises due to tough cartilage that prevents the larynx from vibrating. youtube.com/watch?v=T4upo…
Former USA president Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only President to kill a cougar with a knife. knifecollector.net/Roosev…
Today I learned of Roar, the most dangerous movie ever made. The movie had 110 untrained lions, tigers, cheetahs, cougars and jaguars, which led to 70 cast and crew members being injured. The injuries ranged fron broken bones to scalpings and gangrene. theguardian.com/film/2015…
The terms cougar, mountain lion, puma, and panther all refer to the same animal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
The Argentine cougar won't defend itself against humans but start trembling, moaning, and crying to implore compassion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
Cougars Aren't Technically Big Cats, and are Closer to Small Cats Because They Cannot Roar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
In 1955 a six year old boy incredibly fought off a starving cougar while his friend ran for help taking 45 minutes before finally finding an adult who believed him. edmontonjournal.com/news/…
Singer John Mellencamp was forced by MCA Records to change his stage name to Johnny Cougar because they thought his German surname Mellencamp was too weird. It took him over a decade and 3 name changes to get back to his real name again. ultimateclassicrock.com/j…
Benjamin Franklin was a fan of Cougars, pointing it out while writing this letter to a younger man swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdo…
Cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount are all names that actually refer to the same one animal. animals.sandiegozoo.org/a…
The cougar, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount are all actually the same cat, the puma concolor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
Today I learned of the Zanesville Ohio Zoo Massacre, which left18 Tigers, 17 Lions, 8 Bears, 3 Cougars, 2 Wolves, 1 Baboon, 1 Macaque, and 1 Man Dead gq.com/story/terry-thomps…
In 2011 a Cougar that was killed in Connecticut was found by DNA testing to have travelled from South Dakota - a distance of 1500+KM. blogs.scientificamerican.…
Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife. knifecollector.net/Roosev…
A "Panther" isn't a real animal. It is actually a term used to describe black cougars, jaguars and leopards. a-z-animals.com/animals/p…
The male version of a "cougar" is a "rhino." heraldsun.com.au/news/mee…
The cougar holds the Guinness record for most different names of an animal. It has over 40 different names in English alone including mountain lion, puma, cougar, etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
Wildfires in the U.S. get their names from its origin's location or by fire fighters. There have been fires called "Bald Knob" "Soda" "The Cougar" and "Not Creative." npr.org/2015/08/26/434821…
The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, with over 40 in English alone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
A new high school in UT vetoed the students' vote to choose the Cougar as its mascot because it could be offensive to older women. huffingtonpost.com/2012/0…
Before breaking in to the NHL, Tom "Bussey" Martin was traded in 1983 from the Western Hockey League's Seattle Breakers to the Victoria Cougars for a used bus and future considerations. nhl.com/news/tom-bussey-m…
There is no such thing as a Panther, just black Jaguars and Cougars sandiegozoo.org/animalbyt…
A panther isn't its own animal, it's just another name for a leopard, cougar, jaguar or mountain lion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan…
A mountain lion, a puma, a cougar, and a panther are all the same animal. defenders.org/mountain-li…
Cougar, Puma, Panther, and Mountain Lion are all names for the same animal defenders.org/mountain-li…
The Eastern Cougar Officially Went Extinct news.discovery.com/animal…
Mountain lions (cougars) are more closely related to domestic cats than African lions en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fel…
Muhammad Ali conquered fear before a fight by having himself attacked by guard dogs and a cougar.
Pumas ("cougars") are in Guinness World Records book with the greatest number of names. It has over 40 names in English alone! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
Pumas, Cougars, Mountain Lions and Panthers are all the same animal. sandiegozoo.org/animalbyt…
Cougars can leap 30 feet from a standstill, and jump 15 feet straight up. wdfw.wa.gov/living/cougar…
The 'Cougar' in singer John Cougar Mellencamp's name isn't his birth name nor did he choose it as a stage name. It was forced on him by a manager who felt his birth name made him sound like a hillbilly and Mellencamp admits, "I was totally unaware of it until it showed up on the album jacket." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh…
Cougar, mountain lion, puma, and panther are just different names for one species of cat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
Of Cougar Town's 102 episodes, 100 are named after Tom Petty songs. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
The University of Houston "cougar paw" hand sign came from UT making fun of their cougar for getting a finger on its paw severed. uhcougars.com/trads/hou-t…
In Navajo culture, it is taboo to use the pelts of bears, coyotes, wolves, and cougars because of the skinwalker legend. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski…
Teddy Roosevelt Once Killed A Cougar With A Knife bartleby.com/53/4.html
First cougar seen in Kentucky since the Civil War was promptly shot dead. usatoday.com/story/news/n…
, in 1951, a cougar jumped through a closed window to attack a 62-year old man, who fought it off with a knife and then rowed 6 miles across the sea at night in a Canadian winter, in his underwear, to sleep in an unheated cabin. cougarinfo.org/attacks.ht…
Cougars, pumas, mountain lions, catamounts, and panthers are all are the exact same animal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cou…
