On Tue, 29 May 2007 10:41:06 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Having just looked it up, apparently there are differences between areas
- not just only including names.

They are not exactly the same even though they are all parts of the same
genus.

Then again, I'm not a biologist.

I'm thinking the science has changed. Until recently, there were
considered to be 32 subspecies of pumas, but in 1999, Melanie Culver did
a DNA study and suggests 6 subspecies, of which one, P.c. couguar covers
all of North America.

http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi...t/91/3/186.pdf