Puma concolor (carnivore)

Mass: 49 kg based on Laundré and Hernândez 2002 and Nuñez-Perez and Miller 2019

Diet: carnivore based on Bacon et al. 2011

Abundance: 0.00 to 29.55% (median 1.29%)

Latitudinal range: -48.4° to 56.3°

Habitats: (18), boreal forest/taiga (1), desert/xeric shrubland (3), montane grassland (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), temperate coniferous forest (1), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical coniferous forest (2), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (14), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (17), tropical/subtropical savanna (4), tropical/subtropical wetland (1)

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Found in 65 samples

Argentina: Acambuco, Iguazù National Park (on roads), Bañados del Quirquincho (bañadero forest), Población Anticura (Holoceno Medio), Cueva Tùnel

Belize: Extinction Cave

Bolivia: Santa Rosa (control)

Brazil: Fazenda Sta Emília (acurí forest), Caxiuanä National Forest (March), Fazenda Cauaia (camera trapping), Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve, Carlos Botelho State Park, Serra do Japi Biological Reserve (2006/2007), Serra do Japi Biological Reserve (2009/2010), Floresta Nacional Amapâ (dry season), Floresta Nacional Amapâ (wet season), Augusto Ruschi Biological Reserve, Quedas do Rio Bonito Ecological Park (camera trapping), Reserva Natural Vale (year 3), Iguaçu National Park, Purus Project, Formosa Military Training Area, Private Reserve of Natural Heritage Recanto das Antas, Terra do Meio Ecological Station II, Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Land I, Sertäo Veredas-Peruaçu mosaic

Canada: Charlie Lake Cave (Zone IV), Algar

Colombia: Puracé National Park - Cusiyaco Lagoon, Palmar de Altamira (bosque), Laguna del Petrolero

Costa Rica: Pacuare Nature Reserve, Piedras Blancas National Park

Ecuador: Pirincay (Early), La Chimba, Challuahamba

Honduras: Rio Sikre

Mexico: La Reserva Natural Sierra Nanchititla, Estación Científica Las Joyas, Tolistoque (dry season), Tolistoque (rainy season), Abra-Tanchipa Biosphere Reserve (survey 1), Huasabas-Sahuaripa Region, Ajos, Madera West, El Zurdo

Peru: Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2005), Los Amigos Conservation Concession (2006), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2018), Ichigkat Muja - Cordillera del Cóndor National Park (2019), Cerro Baùl

United States: Boulder County, North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River, Davis Mountain Preserve, Crystal Ball Cave, Golf Course, Rancho La Brea (Pit 91), Angel Site (Subdivision W10D), Taddlock, McLelland, Meyer Cave, Schulze Cave (layer C2), Nugget Canyon, West of US 287, Granite Cave

Size measurements:
♀ body mass40600 kgN = 78Laundré and Hernândez 2002
♂ body mass59900 kgN = 69Laundré and Hernândez 2002
♂ body mass52000 kgN = 1Nuñez-Perez and Miller 2019
♂ body mass48000 kgN = 1Nuñez-Perez and Miller 2019
♂ body mass45000 kgN = 1Nuñez-Perez and Miller 2019
♂ ear length75 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
♂ head and body length1520 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
♂ hind foot length248 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
♀ tail length732 mmN = 78Laundré and Hernândez 2002
♂ tail length744 mmN = 69Laundré and Hernândez 2002
♂ tail length710 mmN = 1Sanderson 1949
♀ total body length1941 mmN = 78Laundré and Hernândez 2002
♂ total body length2051 mmN = 69Laundré and Hernândez 2002

See also Puma, Puma paradoides, Puma pardoides