Orphaned cougar cubs given temporary home at Oregon Zoo

The Oregon Zoo cares for two orphaned cougar cubs until a new home can be found.

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[mycatwilatackyou]

what is a shame is that some bastard shot and killed their mother for sport .

[Susan Davis]

Like all things Oregon, I am very proud of my state! Twice I voted to stop hunting of cougars and bears using dogs. I am pleased to know that our cougar cubs have a new home (they are NOT "mountain lions!"). Terri Irwin of the Australia Zoo, who is a native of Eugene, Oregon, raised a beautiful cougar a number of years ago before she moved to Australia after marrying Steve Irwin. Terry loves cougars and so do I!

[FuckingSeriesGurl]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww thats so fuckin cute!

[astarothmountainlion]

very cute

[Kimba Puma]

Did you look that up on the internets? :)

Cougars don´t go by the taxon of felis anymore since various years and i hear "Pumae" as well as felix (sure, its latin for luck) for the first time in this context. Don´t tell BS if you´re not familiar with it.

[Kimba Puma]

What is it you dislike about that name? Many experts are even lazy nuff to just go with "the lions"... now that is misleading

[Kimba Puma]

hello fellow species member

[Crudmunkeys12702]

i feel the same way about lions and those damned africans.

[Teeg32]

Desert Lion, Prairie Lion, Crag Cat, Painter Cat, Catamount. In case you were interested, the Linnaen binomial is Felis Concolor (or Felix Concolour if you live in a country where elements end in -ium even if they shouldn't), and the cladistic multinomial is Pumae Puma Concolor.

[Shubert McWilbur]

I'm sure whoever rescued those cubs knew they were orphans, but how they quantified that is a mystery to me. Usually close proximity to baby carnivores is a bad idea.

[Samantha Wilber]

Tho that is true tell me, if you saw two less than five pound animals starving with no parent in sight would you leave them? They were starving and I am happy that anybody would save these poor animals and I would be one who'd pick them up and take them somewhere they could live....but thats just me

[123gubby]

she said they will live in North carolina but shes at the oregon zoo?????