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Why is the genus puma for a cougar?

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Anonymous

∙ 10y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

In North America the Cougars Pumas and mountain lions are all the same.

The differences only matter to the scientists that study them.

So Cougars are in the Puma Genus.

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