Cheetahs and Pumas are often included in the general perception of 'big cats' however they are in a separate group to the Panthera big cats.
Even though in the present day they inhabit different continents, the Cheetah in Africa and the Puma in the Americas are actually closely related. Together with the Jaguarundi (also in the Americas), they form the Puma lineage of cats.
Here are some interesting news items about these athletic cats from July to December 2024.
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Updates: 4 Dec, 27 Nov, 20 Nov, 13 Nov, 30 Oct, 23 Oct, 16 Oct, 9 Oct 2024
For news on other wild cats see:
Cheetahs in the News (Acinonyx jubatus)
The pioneering work of Dr Laurie Marker of the Cheetah Conservation Fund to help save this iconic cat is the subject of a new documentary on Discovery Channel that launches worldwide this week on Wednesday 04 December, internationally celebrated as Cheetah Day ...
With the four new members, the cheetah count at Kuno stands at 24. ... on September 17, 2022, cheetahs were translocated from Namibia, in Africa under Project Cheetah ...
On ETV Bharat
4 Dec - More on this story on The Statesman
The documentary, jointly produced by JETOUR, the Discovery Channel and the Cheetah Conservation Fund, uses the Namibian grasslands in Africa as a ...
On ZAWYA
... a rare spotless cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) sighting shocked the wildlife world as seen for the first time in April 2024 in nearly a century at Athi Kapiti Conservancy in Kenya ...
The Iranian Cheetah Society is proud to announce the release of a comprehensive report on the status of the Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) in Iran ...
Baby cheetahs are being torn away from their mothers in Kenya and sold in Somalia ...
On The Star
Link to the research article
With much fanfare, a coalition of cheetahs made their way to India, from far-away Africa, two years ago. They reached Indian soil to coincide with ...
Animal Conservation, 2024
Large-scale extinction of large carnivores (lion Panthera Leo, cheetah Acinonyx jubatus and wild dog Lycaon pictus) in protected areas of …
India’s cheetah conservation plan is losing steam
Frontline
September, 17, 2024, will mark the second anniversary of the arrival of eight African cheetahs at Kuno National Park ...
Cheetah Dies in Kuno National Park from Suspected Drowning (India)
Insights IAS
Pumas / Cougars / Mountain Lions in the News (Puma concolor)
October to December Articles
The first clip is of a female puma (Puma concolor) absolutely screaming its head off. I don't know what I expected a puma to sound like, but these ...
On Tico Times
The research is scheduled to run from December 2 through mid-April 2025, and is part of FWP's mountain lion monitoring and management strategy ...
... cattle ranching and the conservation of jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in 129 ranches located in the Amazon arc of deforestation ...
Research article on Plos One
“This flexibility we see in mountain lion activity is what allows us to share these natural areas together. Mountain lions are doing the work so that coexistence can happen.” ...
Colorado Parks and Wildlife releases results of studies of mountain lion (Puma concolor) populations in Middle Park and the Gunnison Basin ...
... jaguar (Panthera onca) is considered critically endangered in Paraguay, while the more populous puma (Puma concolor) is considered a species of ...
On Mongabay
ThinkLandscape - Global Landscapes Forum
For ranchers in Costa Rica, jaguars and pumas become unexpected allies
Mongabay
Since 2013, a joint project between Costa Rican conservation authorities and wildcat NGO Panthera has worked to tackle the problem of jaguars and pumas preying...
The Black Hills are thick with lions. But those that leave are unlikely to repopulate the East, study finds
Buffalo Bulletin
Puma concolor reoccupying old haunts they were extirpated from long ago ...
July to September Articles
Puma Spotted in Atenas: A Rare Sight in Urban Alajuela (Costa Rica)
The Tico Times
Thanks to this initiative, the presence of pumas (Puma concolor) has been documented, along with sightings of smaller felines such as the ...
Trail Cam Captures Rare Footage of a Florida Panther Family
Outdoors
Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) are a rare subspecies mountain lion that only live in southern Florida. The Nature Conservancy reports ...
Highways prevent pumas from reclaiming their eastern U.S. range: Study
Mongabay
Historically, pumas (Puma concolor) ranged coast to coast across nearly all of the Americas, stretching from the northern reaches of Canada, down ...
Mountain Lions in New York: Do They Exist?
A-Z Animals
Historically, the Eastern Cougar (Puma concolor cougar) called New York State home. They were common in the Catskill Mountains through the 1800s ...
Counting Cougars - Thirty-five wild cougar sightings and still counting
Mountain Journal
Jaguarundis in the News (Herpailurus yagouaroundi)
The smaller cats are not often in the news, but here is an article from May.
Elusive jaguarundi inspires biologists to share data across Latin America
Mongabay
The jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi) is a little-known small felid with a range extending from northern Argentina to Mexico ...
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