Florida Panthers Animal Population

Endangered species act 1973.

Florida panthers animal population. Florida panthers were heavily hunted after 1832 when a bounty on panthers was created. Florida panthers are a subspecies of puma concolor a big cat with more than 80 common names including the puma cougar or mountain lion. Today the primary threats to the remaining panther population are habitat loss fragmentation and degradation. In south florida it lives in pinelands tropical hardwood hammocks and mixed freshwater swamp forests.

Florida panther member of a population of large new world cats of the species puma concolor family felidae confined to a small isolated and inbred group in southern florida and protected by the u s. The remaining population was seriously inbred. Males can weigh up to 73 kg 161 lb and live within a range that includes the big cypress national preserve everglades national park the florida panther national wildlife refuge picayune strand state forest rural. The predators once stalked landscapes from canada to.

Today the panther is presently restricted to less than five percent of its historic range in a single breeding population in southern florida. Due primarily to hunting and habitat fragmentation florida panthers almost died out by the 1970s when there were fewer than 20 left. The florida panther is a north american cougar p.