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a female cougar and kitten in Grand Teton National Park
January 5, 2014

Snow Cats

Experts thought cougars rarely socialize, but F51, a female living near Grand Teton National Park, traveled and fed with another female one spring. Eventually the other female adopted one of F51’s kittens.

See more pictures from the December 2013 feature story “Ghost Cat.”

Photograph by Steve Winter, National Geographic

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