Brookfield Cougar | Wisconsin Cougar | What is Cougar
A 50-pound cougar has made its way into the Milwaukee suburbs, with the last sighting in Brookfield on Saturday night.
Brookfield police said Sunday a resident of the suburb's northeast side contacted them Saturday about 5:45 p.m. when she saw a cougar under a pine tree in her backyard in the 4600 block of Raven Court. Officers responded and confirmed it was a cougar.
The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second-heaviest cat in the New World, after the jaguar. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the cougar is properly considered both nocturnal and crepuscular, although daytime sightings do occur.The cougar is more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat (subfamily Felinae), than to any species of subfamily Pantherinae,of which only the jaguar is native to the Americas.
