Animal of the day: Puma! (because Jen likes cats not fish and also because I have a book about animals with a beautiful beautiful puma on the front)

Puma's are the same thing as cougars and mountain lions and are also called catamounts. They hold the Guinness record for cat with most nicknames.  Pumas are more like domestic cats than lions both in terms of being solitary and genetically close and the fact that they cannot roar, but cheetahs and jaguars are the closest relatives to the Puma. The Puma is usually silent but occasionally communicates in chirps, whistles, purrs, and other domestic cat like noises. There are six subspecies of Puma.

Pumas compete with gray wolves and jaguars for food when their territories overlap. Study is being undergone due to the suspicion that pumas have been successfully killing wolves by chomping down on the back of their skull.