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adult pumas can sometimes weigh over 200 pounds
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Other scavengers — pumas, ocelots, caiman, and coyotes — were rarely spotted.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2025
Ciancio adds that pumas could affect penguins in the long term.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Did authorities have to kill a Malibu puma who attacked a boy?
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
To extirpate mountain lions from their farms, settlers used a combination of poison, which would have killed not only pumas but other smaller potential predators, and lioneros—experts at hunting down and killing pumas.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2025
Ciancio adds that pumas could affect penguins in the long term.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
Did authorities have to kill a Malibu puma who attacked a boy?
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
To extirpate mountain lions from their farms, settlers used a combination of poison, which would have killed not only pumas but other smaller potential predators, and lioneros—experts at hunting down and killing pumas.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Puma.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puma. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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