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Lumigny Safari réserve (ex Parc des Félins)
Le puma (puma concolor = une seule couleur) aussi appelé couguar ou lion des montagnes, est un félin d'Amérique. Son aire de répartition est très large, du Canada (cougar) à l'Amérique du Sud. C'est un sportif accompli :
Le puma peut courir jusqu'à 72 km/h, sur de courtes distances toutefois . En outre, il peut franchir jusqu'à 12 mètres en longueur, d'un bond à partir d'une position fixe. Enfin, il est capable de faire des bonds atteignant 4 à 5 mètres de haut, sans élan. C'est un bon nageur s'il ne le fait qu'en cas de menace. Pour les besoins de la chasse ou en cas de menace, il est capable de grimper aux arbres et de faire preuve d'une grande agilité.
I was looking at a docu about Patagonia on tv, saw so many beautiful scapes and animals.. a lot of blue ice also... so I took my camera, which I cannot advise to anybody 'cause all pictures were moved, so bad.. except only one.. this one.. it 's with infrared 'light'/camera made during night when cougar mum was hunting/looking out to be able to feed her young ones.. so I didn 't really make the photo myself, yet still a bit, which was not obvious at all.. it 's because she was standing still long enough and the camera man didn 't move either.. I liked it so much..
As dusk sets in over the temperate rainforest in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, a large male Cougar pauses briefly while moving through the lush understory. Photographed using a DSLR camera trap.
Canon 5D Mark ii | Canon 17-40mm f/4 | 3 Nikon SB-28 Speedlights | Camtraptions PIR V3
1/160th | f/11 | ISO 2000
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In December 2007, on the park hill Vellert, part of the new building district Zuidbroek, Apeldoorn, was the image Cage-with-no-cougar-in-it [Kooi-met-geen-poema-er-in] (locally known as The Cougar [De Poema]). The artwork is 12 meters long, 9 meters tall and consists of 2000 meters steel wire. The whole weighs 3000 kilos. After the image was completed in a large hall, it was sawn into five parts and transported from Dordrecht to Apeldoorn. The parts have been reassembled. From a distance there appears to be an animal in the cage, but up-close it is an abstract artwork.
Artist: Maarten de Reus
(In 2006 there were stories that there was a cougar wandering around on the Veluwe. This was never proven.) Typically "komkommertijd"-news.
When the newspapers are thin because of holidays and when little or nothing is to report on politics – since all politicians are on leave – one speaks of "komkommertijd" (translation from dutch to english "Cucumberseason"). In practice it comes down to the summer months of July and August.
:-)
www.brs.nl/downloads/Bouwen met Staal Poema.pdf
www.destentor.nl/apeldoorn/de-poema-wint-nationale-bouwpr...
In December 2007, on the park hill Vellert, part of the new building district Zuidbroek, Apeldoorn, was the image Cage-with-no-cougar-in-it [Kooi-met-geen-poema-er-in] (locally known as The Cougar [De Poema]). The artwork is 12 meters long, 9 meters tall and consists of 2000 meters steel wire. The whole weighs 3000 kilos. After the image was completed in a large hall, it was sawn into five parts and transported from Dordrecht to Apeldoorn. The parts have been reassembled. From a distance there appears to be an animal in the cage, but up-close it's an abstract artwork.
Artist: Maarten de Reus
(In 2006 there were stories that there was a cougar wandering around on the Veluwe. This was never proven.) Typically "komkommertijd"-news.
When the newspapers are thin because of holidays and when little or nothing is to report on politics – since all politicians are on leave – one speaks of "komkommertijd" (translation from dutch to english "Cucumberseason"). In practice it comes down to the summer months of July and August.
:-)
www.brs.nl/downloads/Bouwen met Staal Poema.pdf
www.destentor.nl/apeldoorn/de-poema-wint-nationale-bouwpr...
Orphan cougar found at the Kalamalka lake was named after the site and reared at Kamloops Wildlife Park. He is now about 7 years old and shares his enclosure with an older lady, Zoe.
Although they are usually called a Cougar, a Mountain Lion or a Panther, they are also often referred to as Painter, Deer Tiger and Catamount, depending on your geographic location. The Cougar has forty recognized names in the English language as well as at least twenty-five native North American names and eighteen South American names. All of which just goes to show how important scientific names are when referring to a species of animal. Like all other animals the Puma has only one scientific name (although this name may be changed to reflect our increasing scientific knowledge). Currently the Puma is Puma concolor (it was Felis concolor but this name is not now correct as the Puma is no longer considered to be a member of the genus Felis.)
For animals that hunt at night an enhanced sense of touch is obviously useful and for cats this is supplied by special sensitive hairs called vibrissae by scientists, but otherwise commonly known as whiskers. Vibrissae are extremely sensitive to touch and can tell the cat about even small changes in air movement around it. Being longer than ordinary hairs they are the first part of a cat to touch the world and they therefore allow a cat to move around in complete darkness without bumping into things.
Felines, with the notable exception of lions and to a lesser extent domestic cats, are habitually solitary, however they are sometimes are found in pairs (either m/m, f/f or m/f) or larger groups consisting of a single adult female and her immature young. Three quarters of cat species live in forests and many prefer a dense undergrowth that helps them approach their prey unseen.
In Captivity @ Northwest Trek - Eatonville, WA
Detail of yellow Cougar parked next to another vintage car that was blue.
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Lady Cougars
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Girls Volleyball 2010
McKinley Tigers Volleyball Classic Girls Invitational
Aug 13-15, 2010
This guy was another guest in one of the Grandfather Mountain animal habitats. Beautiful animal, we got there just as he was being fed. I had to shoot through glass and had a difficult time getting any sharp images, but this was one of the better ones.
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He was sitting on a rocking chair looking out the door as the sun was starting to set..
Looking to be a tad bit tardy, the Coast Starlight rolls through Cougar, California on a perfect summer morning in August 1994. As No. 14 passes over Deer Mountain Road, it's next stop will be at Klamath Falls, Oregon in a little over an hour. The grade is about 1.4% ascending here.
We would sincerely like to apologize to anyone who thought they would find a picture of Mountain Lions in their natural habitat. You see, Grandma Fergeson sent Charlie Jr. out to get a picture of Cougars, real cougars. Now she figured he would just go on down to the library and get on the inter-web and download some pictures for her to choose from. Instead he went on down to Duke And Min’s Drive In Diner and took this picture.
I hear tell, you can buy insurance for the cougar on the left.
Hitch Hiker is from American Diorama
The Mercury Cougar is likely an AMT kit. It was found on Ebay and crafted by an unknown modeler who did a great job on the build.
The sun sets over The Superstition Mountains in Apache Junction near Phoenix, Arizona. This was the last good day to shoot the cougar shadow and I got this with my drone
Royal Netherlands Air Force.
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The sun sets over the Superstition Mountains creating The Cougar Shadow, Apache Junction, AZ. Like The Mitten Shadow, this only happens twice a year at the equinox.
This rugged place, named for a man who once tracked wildlife in the age of bounty hunting, remains as hard to access today as it was then. I joined biologists and fellow conservationists in the hills above Vancouver Island's Fanny Bay so that we could place listening devices to monitor the endangered marbled murrelet population