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Cougar\u2013Courtesy Western North Carolina Nature Center, Asheville, NC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Catamount, short for \u201ccat of the mountain,\u201d is a generic name describing any of a variety of mid- to large-size American wild cats. It is most often used to refer to cougars and lynxes. In Southern Appalachia, \u201ccatamount<\/g>\u201d is used interchangeably with \u201cpanther<\/g>\u201d to describe the larger cougar, but it also can refer to the smaller bobcat. Debate continues whether catamounts still roam Southern Appalachia, fueled by regular reports of sightings of the animals or their scat or tracks. Conclusive physical evidence of their presence in the region remains as elusive as the creatures themselves. Catamounts are also rare as mascots: Western Carolina University adopted the catamount<\/g> in 1932.\u00a0 The University of Vermont and Potomac State College also claim it. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Bobcat\u2013Courtesy Western North Carolina Nature Center, Asheville, NC<\/p>\n

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Cougar\u2013Courtesy Western North Carolina Nature Center, Asheville, NC Catamount, short for \u201ccat of the mountain,\u201d is a generic name describing any of a variety of mid- to large-size American wild cats. It is most often used to refer to cougars and lynxes. In Southern Appalachia, \u201ccatamount\u201d is used interchangeably with \u201cpanther\u201d to describe the larger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Catamount, short for \u201ccat of the mountain,\u201d is a generic name describing any of a variety of mid- to large-size American wild cats. It is most often used to refer to cougars and lynxes. In Southern Appalachia, \u201ccatamount\u201d is used interchangeably with \u201cpanther\u201d to describe the larger cougar, but it also can refer to the smaller bobcat. Debate continues whether catamounts still roam Southern Appalachia, fueled by regular reports of sightings of the animals or their scat or tracks. Conclusive physical evidence of their presence in the region remains as elusive as the creatures themselves. Catamounts are also rare as mascots: Western Carolina University adopted the catamount in 1932.\u00a0 The University of Vermont and Potomac State College also claim it. <\/em>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_6278\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"620\"]\"Cougar--Courtesy<\/a> Cougar--Courtesy Western North Carolina Nature Center, Asheville, NC[\/caption]\r\n\r\nImages Courtesy of the Western North Carolina Nature Center<\/a>\r\n\r\n[playlist ids=\"6297\"]","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[597,7],"tags":[93,147,350,376,570,572],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal","category-land","tag-bobcat","tag-couger","tag-mascots","tag-mountain-lion","tag-wildcat","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8141,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/8141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}