Talk:Cougar

Semi-protected edit request on 5 October 2025

Please update the end of the third paragraph under "Relationships with humans > Attacks on humans > In North America" to include the fatal attack in Oregon in 2018.

Proposed edit:

"Washington state was the site of a fatal attack in 2018, its first since 1924.[122] Later in 2018, a hiker was fatally attacked in the Mount Hood National Forest, marking Oregon's first fatal cougar attack in the wild. [153][154] Lightly populated New Mexico reported an attack in 2008, the first there since 1974.[123]"

References:

153 ^ Zach Urness (September 11, 2018) Oregon's first fatal cougar attack in the wild claims hiker near Mount Hood, Statesman Journal.

154 ^ Courtney Flatt (September 21, 2018) Wildlife Officials Conclude They Killed The Cougar Responsible For Hiker's Death, OPB. Archived from the original on September 22, 2018. Retrieved on October 5, 2025. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meeshiefeet (talk • contribs) 18:59, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 October 2025

Remove Panther. Panthera is a different genus than Puma. 149.154.1.92 (talk) 02:39, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

 Not done: While Panthera is a different genus, cougars are commonly referred to as panthers. Day Creature (talk) 02:47, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Subfamily missing

The genus Puma belongs also to the subfamily Felinae rather than just to the Felidae family. This is missing within the infobox. Axzyr (talk) 12:47, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

@Axzyr: This is intentional. We list minor taxa ranks from the article's subject up to the next major rank, and then generally only minor ranks. As this is a species article, the next major rank is genus, so above there we list only major ranks. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:36, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

I see, thank you for the clarification. Axzyr (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Stupid Phrasing

"is a large small cat native to the Americas". A large small cat? That's the best that you guys could come up with? Why not just say a medium sized cat or basically anything but what's there already? That way Wikipedia can fulfill it's purpose without looking stupid. A large small cat....even saying a small large cat would be better since saying "Big cats" is commonplace. ~2026-20459-58 (talk) 17:04, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

It is a bit of an unfortunate turn of phrase, but “large” and “small” here are in different semantic domains, so to speak. “Large” refers to size in the ordinary way, but “small” refers to lineage (as distinct from the “big cats” you mention): cougars are more closely related to e.g. bobcats than e.g. leopards, despite appearing more similar to the latter in size & shape. Can you suggest a better way to express this concisely? Perhaps … is a large member of the small-cat family native to …? Or omit “large” from the first clause, instead pointing out the size shortly afterward?—Odysseus1479 19:12, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 3 April 2026

Change "lineages migrated across the Bering land bridge into the Americas 8 to 8.5 million years ago million years ago" to "lineages migrated across the Bering land bridge into the Americas 8 to 8.5 million years ago" (to remove the double of 'million years ago') ~2026-20639-41 (talk) 21:23, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done; the duplication was not apparent in the wikitext, the first instance coming from the {{Ma}} template.—Odysseus1479 21:37, 3 April 2026 (UTC)