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On It's official: Animal is a cougar
Posted on February 7 at 10:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
According to material from the American Institute of Biological Sciences Guidelines the cougar has been redefined from FELIS CONCOLOR to PUMA CONCOLOR because the Puma is more closely related to the Cheetah and the Jaguarundi than to the small cats like the bobcat or lynx. And the 32 subspecies have been narrow down to just 6 with only one subspecies for North America and Canada.