Word: cougar
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...friend of the Christian--an odd name for a lion. That beneficent image was probably owing to Native American beliefs in the beast's role in maintaining harmony between heaven and humankind. The Chickasaw called the feline "the cat of God." And for centuries, puma concolor (a.k.a. mountain lion, cougar, panther, catamount) avoided people. It was an elusive presence: a tail vanishing into the bush, a distant snarl, the rare but startling...
...three girls behind her and pulled a pocketknife from her backpack. She waved the knife and screamed, but the cat kept running at her children, she says, "trying to cut them out of the herd like they were baby deer." After ducking under ledges while flailing at the cougar, Cooder and her children made it safely back into their...
...mountain lion by a 16-year-old counselor on a hiking trail near Missoula, Mont. The animal slunk away and was later tracked and killed; the child suffered puncture wounds and numerous scratches. In April, in Villa Park, Calif., which is about six miles east of Disneyland, a cougar climbed into a pine tree in Alice Thompson's backyard, leaped onto her front porch and nudged at the door before trying to jump a fence into a neighboring yard. Animal-control officials killed the 97-lb. male and later discovered that it hadn't eaten in days. In other places...
...Lowell police then contacted nearby cities and towns with a description of Kenney and the vehicle, a black Mercury Cougar, in which he fled...
...Cougar was registered to Annie Glenn in New Hampshire...