A Cougar Mom and Two Cubs Filmed by Trail Cam in British Columbia, Canada by The Bear ID Project and A Scottish Wildcat filmed in a Scottish forest by The Scottish Wildcat Haven. More about these two wild cat species: • North American Cougar The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the puma, mountain lion, panther or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the widest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the biggest cat in North America, and the second-heaviest cat in the New World after the jaguar. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the cougar is properly considered both nocturnal and crepuscular, although daytime sightings do occur. The cougar is more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat (subfamily Felinae), than to any species of subfamily Pantherinae, of which only the jaguar is native to the Americas. • Scottish wildcat The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris syn. Felis silvestris grampia) is a European wildcat population in Scotland. This population is estimated to comprise between 1,000 and 4,000 individuals, of which about 400 cats are thought to meet the morphological and genetic criteria of a wildcat. The Scottish wildcat population used to be widely distributed across Britain, but declined drastically since the turn of the 20th century due to habitat loss and persecution. It is now restricted to northern Scotland. It is Endangered in the United Kingdom and primarily threatened by hybridization with domestic cats. Camera-trapping surveys carried out in the Scottish Highlands between 2010 and 2013 revealed that wildcats live foremost in mixed woodland, whereas feral and domestic cats were photographed mostly in grasslands. • #Cougar #CougarMomAndCubs #CougarMom #CougarCubs #ScottishWildcat #ScottishForest #Scotland #ScotlandWildcat #WildCat #Cats https://www.instagram.com/p/Br51NCZBUyh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bo37rddah1v8
