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title: "Poema"
description: "Puma concolor — Zoogdieren. The cougar, also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large feline native to the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/mountain-lion
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Poema

> Puma concolor — Zoogdieren. The cougar, also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large feline native to the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Puma concolor*
- Category: `mammals` (Zoogdieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `mountains` (Bergen), `desert` (Woestijn)
- iNaturalist observations: 18128
- Wikidata: [Q35255](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35255)
- iNaturalist taxon: [42007](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/42007)

## Names

- en: Mountain Lion
- de: Puma
- es: Puma
- fr: Puma
- nl: Poema
- pt: Onça Parda
- pl: Puma płowa

## Countries with the most observations

US (9217), MX (1289), BR (696), CR (572), AR (524), CL (441), CA (402), CO (294), EC (165), PE (70), BO (49), GT (33)

## Summary

The cougar, also called puma, mountain lion, catamount, and panther, is a large feline native to the Americas. It inhabits North, Central and South America, making it the most widely distributed wild, terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most widespread in the world. Its range spans Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, the Rocky Mountains and areas in the western United States. Further south, its range extends through Mexico to the Amazon rainforest and the southern Andes Mountains in Patagonia. It is an adaptable generalist species, occurring in most…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar

## Photo

![Poema](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mountain-lion/medium.jpg)

Photo: Paulo Mascaretti · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/236102428

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/mountain-lion?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).