Florida panther - Wikipedia
The Florida panther is a large carnivore whose diet consists both of small animals, such as raccoons, armadillos, nutrias, hares, mice, and waterfowl, and larger prey such as storks, white-tailed deer, feral pigs, and small American alligators.
The Florida Panther | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
2022年4月13日 · Panthers, historically, roamed the entire southeastern United States. Development badly fractured their habitat. Hunting nearly eliminated them; genetic defects affected their health and survival. Eight female panthers were brought in from Texas in the 1990s and released in Florida to breed. It worked.
Florida panther | Diet, Habitat, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月7日 · Florida panther, member of a population of large New World cats of the species Puma concolor, family Felidae, confined to a small, isolated, and inbred group in southern Florida and protected by the U.S. Endangered Species Act (1973). Florida panthers are the only breeding group of pumas in the eastern United States.
Florida Panther - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The Florida panther is a large, long-tailed cat with a great deal of color variation: pale brown or rusty upper parts, dull white or buffy under parts; tail tip, back of ears, and sides of nose are dark brown or blackish.
Florida Panther: Species Profile - U.S. National Park Service
2022年12月7日 · Florida panthers were heavily hunted after 1832 when a bounty on panthers was created. Perceived as a threat to humans, livestock, and game animals, the species was nearly extinct by the mid-1950s. Today, the primary threats to the remaining panther population are habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation.
Description and Range | FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife …
Florida panther range is outlined in pink and covers the southeastern United States. Known panther occurrences shown as blue circles mainly south of Orlando, Florida and most panther breeding occurs in the orange-shaded area in south Florida around the Everglades.
Florida Panther - Florida Wildlife Federation
2024年5月17日 · The Florida panther (P. c. couguar – Puma concolor couguar) is a North American cougar that lives in tropical hardwood hammocks, pinelands, and mixed freshwater swamp forests of South Florida. It is a subspecies of puma, also known as a mountain lion or cougar — the last breeding population of the subspecies surviving east of the Mississippi River.
Florida Panther Program | FWC - Florida Fish and Wildlife …
Florida panthers are the larger of Florida’s two native cat species (panthers and bobcats). Florida panthers have been documented throughout much of the peninsula and even into Georgia. The core population, however, is found south of Lake Okeechobee. Panthers are listed as an Endangered Species under the Endangered Species Act and it is ...
State Animal - Florida Department of State
The Florida Panther is a large, long-tailed, pale brown cat that grows to six feet or longer. Its habitat is usually the same as that of the white-tailed deer, which is the mainstay of its diet. Much folklore surrounds these seldom-seen cats, sometimes called "catamounts" or "painters," and they have been persecuted out of fear and ...
WEC422/UW467: Wildlife of Florida Factsheet: Florida Panther …
The Florida panther is currently listed as an endangered subspecies of Puma concolor, a species with a broad geographic distribution extending from western Canada and southward through the western United States, Central and South America, and to southern Chile. Historically, pumas ranged throughout the United States.