![]() That they were in fact present is without question, for the U.S. I will not say that I ever saw any my selfe, but some affirme that they have scene a Lyon at Cape Anne, which is not above six leagus from Boston : some likewise being lost in woods, have heard such terrible roarings, as have made them much agast which must either be Devills or Lyons there being no other creatures which use to roare saving Beares, which have not such a terrible kinde of roaring : besides, Plimo u th men have traded for Lyons skinnes in former times. Even William Wood, in his 1634 New Englands Prospect, had only this to say of mountain lions in eastern Massachusetts: Populations and subspecies of mountain lions once ranged across the length and breadth of both American continents, and th e creature was indeed “ the most wide-ranging species of mammal in the western hemisphere.” (1) They were thus app r opriately known by a variety of names, including cougars, catamounts, pumas, and (especially in Florida) panthers.īut f rom the moment Europeans set foot on North America, the presence of mountain lions in Massachusetts has rarely risen above the level of rumor. "Walking puma" by Tambako the Jaguar, CC BY-ND 2.0. ![]() Cougars in Audubon's The quadrupeds of North America. ![]()
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