
Paul Beier
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LOCATION: United States
Associate Professor, Conservation Biology and Wildlife Ecology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, U.S.
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Puma, (Puma concolor), large brownish New World cat comparable in size to the jaguar—the only other large cat of the Western Hemisphere. The puma, a member of the family Felidae, has the widest distribution of any New World mammal, with a range extending from southeastern Alaska to southern…
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