Cougar, mountain lion, catamount, puma, panther… in North America, they’re all the same animal. Puma concolor, to give the beasts their scientific name, once called much of North and South America home. The last eastern North American cougar, however, was reported killed in 1938 on the Maine/Quebec border. Wildlife biologists James E. Cardoza and Susan…

Ghost Cats of the East — JSTOR Daily