#PUMAS

[justcatposts]

🔥 A gorgeous little puma cub checking out a wildlife cam 🔥

(Source)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[big-catsss]

(by etpic)

[herpsandbirds]

'That’s a bloodbath': How a federal program kills wildlife for private interests

The USDA’s Wildlife Services program is a holdover from the 1930s, when Congress gave the federal government broad authority to kill wildlife at the request of private landowners. In that era, government-sponsored extermination programs for native wild animals, like wolves and grizzly bears, were common. After the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, federal agencies were required to change course and start helping some of those wild animal populations recover. But today, Wildlife Services employees still kill hundreds of thousands of noninvasive animals a year, data from the agency shows. Even species considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act, like grizzly bears, are not exempt. So long as livestock or human life are threatened, federal rules allow Wildlife Services to kill those animals, too...

[carygrantsbeard]

Been obsessed with mountain lions these past few months I have a folder with pictures of some on my phone :-)

[mapsontheweb]

The Overlap of Grizzly Bear, Wolf, and Mountain Lion Habitats in North America

[too-hot-to-hoot]

Fully grown big cats that are just as cute as their cubs

[scooby-doo-exploration]

lalulutres - Cougar (Puma concolor) in tree

[camtasticalsocks]

Early morning hike 🌳

[pngblog]

some courgar/puma (the animal) pngs? either irl or antique art would be fun :] thank you!

[buckhead1111]

buckhead1111

[roamingtigress]

Dutch went "pspspspsps" and now he has some new friends.

[leoparduscolocola]

One thing that’s been really interesting to me lately is how names for animals develop and change over time and vary depending on where you live, so I thought I’d make this poll about one of my favorite species:

[jadeseadragon]

Vida de Pumas by Felipe Román @fotosafaritorresdelpaine