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Examples of puma in a Sentence
adult pumas can sometimes weigh over 200 pounds
Recent Examples of puma from the Web
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Few mountain lions (which are also known by some Californians as pumas) reacted to the frog recordings.
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Also known as cougars, pumas and panthers, mountain lions are the largest wildcats in North America.
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The puma headed into the Pulgas Ridge Open Space area after the second sighting.
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Four days later, an 8-year-old puma, Soberana, died of intestinal trouble, the same day that a spider monkey drowned in a pond.
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In a haze of maternal-ish instincts, Kathleen Hale hikes obsessively in search of the puma of Griffith Park.
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Maned wolves, pumas and anteaters, meanwhile, were attracted to woodland and forest vegetation remnants found within ranch lands.
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The death of the 8-month-old lion again illustrated the hazards faced by cougars living among urban sprawl and networks of roads that are barriers to territorial roaming and genetic diversity among the puma populations.
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Like every large mammal in the world, fragmentation and human conflict threaten the jaguar, says Evelyn Piña, a biologist studying jaguars and pumas in Mexico.
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Origin and Etymology of puma
Spanish, from Quechua
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