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Florida panther
Population of cougar endemic to Florida / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the hockey team, see Florida Panthers. For other uses, see Florida panther (disambiguation).
The Florida panther is a North American cougar (P. c. couguar) population in South Florida. It lives in pinelands, tropical hardwood hammocks and mixed freshwater swamp forests. Its range includes the Big Cypress National Preserve, Everglades National Park, Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge, Picayune Strand State Forest, as well as rural communities in the counties of Collier, Hendry, Lee, Miami-Dade, and Monroe County. It is the only confirmed cougar population in the Eastern United States, and currently occupies 5% of its historic range. In the 1970s, an estimated 20 Florida panthers remained in the wild.
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Florida panther | |
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Close-up of head in Everglades National Park | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Puma |
Species: | P. concolor |
Subspecies: | P. c. couguar |
Population: | Florida panther |
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Range of the Florida panther within the U.S. | |
Synonyms[2][4][5] | |
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