Part of Corel's illustration and design line of products, Painter is the most sophisticated paint program on the market with an array of tool palettes that is simply remarkable. Pumas are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Mammalia, order Carnivora, family Felidae.Ĭollins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005 PainterA full-featured paint program for Mac and Windows from Corel. Pumas avoid contact with humans and rarely attack them. Some of the individuals spotted in the East, however, have been pets that were released.
Since then, however, there has been expansion of its range, especially in the central United States W of the Mississippi there have been occasional confirmed pumas in New England since the mid-1990s.
In North America it had largely disappeared from the eastern two thirds of the continent by 1950, except for some survivors in Florida. Some individuals prey on livestock, and farmers have waged extensive war on the species, which is nonetheless still numerous in Central and South America. They are solitary hunters, preying on animals up to the size of deer. Pumas are found in almost every type of country, including mountain tops, grasslands, deserts, and temperate and tropical forests. The fur is yellow-brown, red-brown, or gray the puma is distinguished from the other large New World cat, the jaguar, by its lack of spots. (71 cm) in shoulder height they weigh up to 175 lb (80 kg). Adult males of the cooler regions average about 7 ft (2.1 m) in length, including the 30-in.
There is great variation both in size and in color, and pumas at the extremes of their geographic range are much larger than those of the tropics. The puma is slenderly built, with a lionlike face. Also known as mountain lion, catamount, panther, and painter, it ranges from S British Columbia to the southern tip of South America. Puma (pyo͞oˈmə) or cougar (ko͞oˈgər), New World member of the cat family, Puma concolor.
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