Florida Panther Research Paper

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Norman Green

Professor Bruce

Environmental Science

10 November 2015

Bibliography of Florida Panther

The common name and scientific name is a Florida panther and Puma concolor coryi. The description of the Florida panther is uniform tan color with lighter fur on their lower chest, belly and inner legs. The Florida Panther is found in southern Florida in swamplands such as Everglades, National Parks. Their diet is whitetail deer, feral pigs, rabbits, raccoons, and nine-banded armadillos. The size of a Florida panther is 2 – 3 ft. The family that the Florida Panther is related to is Felidae. Their predator and prey is hares, mice, and

Florida Panthers require large areas to meet their social, reproductive, and energetic needs. It was listed because it was mistakenly perceived as a threat to humans, livestock and game animals; the panther was persecuted and hunted to near extinction by the mid-1950s. The U.S. Department of the Interior listed the Florida Panther as endangered in 1967 and congress passed the endangered species act in 1973. The Endangered Species Act was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they

It hunted everything, and nothing hunted it besides humans.. The Florida panther is an endangered subspecies of cougar Puma concolor that lives in forests and swamps of southern Florida in the United States. This subspecies of cougar is sometimes referred to as cougar, mountain lion, puma, and catamount; but in the southeastern United States and particularly Florida, it is exclusively known as the panther, with respect to its distinction from different cougar subspecies found in other regions of the United States. Florida panthers are usually found in pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and mix swamp forests. One interesting fact that I found was that a Florida panther can’t roar at