mountain lion

The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the puma, mountain lion, panther, or catamount, is a large cat of the family Felidae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.[3] An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, after the jaguar. Solitary by nature and nocturnal,[4] the cougar is most closely related to smaller felines and is nearer genetically to the domestic cat than true lions.

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Mountain Lion os is apparently really popular, despite battery life problem

Fri, Aug 3, 2012

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It was obvious from the start Mountain OS was going to be popular in the Apple fan crowd, but few people expected it to be this popular. With stricter system requirements, working only on models newer than mid 2007 which had 2GB of memory and 8GB of available space, it was going to be really [...]

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