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Mountain Lion Rest, New Mexico or Texas, 1992

A mountain lion rests in midday heat. Also called pumas, cougars, panthers, and catamounts, these lions are the second biggest cats in the Americas. Jaguars are the biggest.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Pecos River," September 1993, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Bruce Dale

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