(n.) The cougar. Applied also, in some parts of the United States, to the lynx.
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Cougar
Definition:
(n.) An American feline quadruped (Felis concolor), resembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.
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(1) It is not known whether limitation of ammoniagenesis and elevated plasma glucose concentration also characterize larger felidae such as panthers and cougars.
(2) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(3) It’s also good to take advice on bear and cougar safety .
(4) FULHAM Accounts for the year to 30 June 2014 Ownership Owned by Shahid Khan, via Big Cat Holdings, a company registered in Bermuda (tax haven), and Cougar HoldCo London, registered in the UK.
(5) This is an industry that has Cougar Night practically next door to my office and thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to meet there for business conversations.” Since some of the big tech companies began releasing their generally dismal diversity statistics back in 2014, prompting rebukes from both the media and the federal government , the race has been on to make Silicon Valley a more welcoming place for women and minorities.
(6) I hope Bridget's not some awful giddy cougar but I think that's unlikely."
(7) Islet amyloid isolated from the pancreas of a 20-year-old cougar (Felis concolor) was dissolved and purified by gel permeation and reversed phase HPLC for amino acid sequence analysis.
(8) An estimated 650,000 Nanophyetus salmincola were recovered from the small intestine of a wild female cougar kitten (Felis concolor).
(9) The new fossil suggests central Asia, rather than Africa, was where the panthera sub family, including lions, jaguars, tigers, leopards, snow leopards, and clouded leopards, diverged from the rest of the cat family tree, felinae, which includes cougars, lynxes, and domestic cats.
(10) The movie's central theme will be familiar to those who have seen Hollywood's "cougar" films: older, recently retired woman has an affair with younger, sexually voracious man.
(11) The woods are home to grizzlies, black bears, cougars, wolves and coyotes, so it’s important to keep to the 191 miles of trails in the park – which range in difficulty from short strolls to steep treks of several days’ duration – and to make a noise while walking to scare off any bears.
(12) IAPP from the cougar, like IAPP from the human and domesticated cat, incorporates an inherently amyloidogenic AILS sequence at positions 25-28.
(13) The common occurrence of sarcocysts in muscles of top carnivores such panthers and cougars is unexplained.
(14) Washington State blows the New Mexico Bowl Facebook Twitter Pinterest Okay, not one of the marquee bowls on the schedule, but any game where a team blows a 45-30 lead in the final three minutes as the Washington State Cougars did against the Colorado State Rams belongs on this list.
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(16) Cross-reactive antibodies to FIV were common in several free-ranging populations of large cats, including East African lions and cheetahs of the Serengeti ecosystem and in puma (also called cougar or mountain lion) populations throughout North America.
(17) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system, agrees: “It has always been a controversial issue, mainly because the media was all over ministers to stop the programme.” He told the Guardian an eradication effort would begin in 2015, with castration or the introduction of cougars being considered as well as hunting or poisoning.
(18) were found in the striated muscles from 11 of 14 wild Florida panthers (Felis concolor coryi) and four of four cougars (two wild F. concolor stanleyana and two captive F. concolor of undetermined subspecies).
(19) We laugh about Mamils (middle-aged men in Lycra) and cougars (middle-aged women sleeping with younger men).
(20) Ollulanus tricuspis is reported for the first time from cougars and represents the first occurrence of this parasite in a sylvatic felid from North America.