Puma pardoides (SciiFii)

The Eurasian puma (Puma pardoides), also known as the Eurasian cougar and, sometimes, the Owen's panther, is a species of cat that originally lived in, as its name suggests, Eurasia during the Pliocene and the Pleistocene and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii and reintroduced throughout Eurasia to help boost biodiversity. Like the American cougar species, Puma concolor, the Eurasian cougar is an adaptable, generalist species, occurring in most Eurasian habitat types. The Eurasian cougar is the four-largest cat in the Old World after the lion, the tiger, and the cave lion. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the Eurasian cougar is properly considered both nocturnal and crepuscular, although daytime sightings do occur. Despite its size, the Eurasian cougar is more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat, than to any species of subfamily Pantherinae. The Eurasia cougar is an ambush predator that pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources are ungulates, particularly deer. It also hunts species as small as insects and rodents. It prefers habitats with dense underbrush and rocky areas for stalking, but can also live in open areas. The Eurasian cougar is territorial, and survives at low population densities. Individual territory sizes depend on terrain, vegetation, and abundance of prey. While large, it is not always the apex predator in its range, yielding prey it has killed to leopards, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, brown bears, Chinese alligators, crocodiles, dholes, and to groups of gray wolves or golden jackals. It is reclusive and mostly avoids people. The conservation status of the Eurasian cougar is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts, the Eurasian cougar's wide natural range and its tolerance to most of the human activities.