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| | Puma Summary |
 | | It is more closely related to the common house cat than to the four "big cats", the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. |
 | | In North America, particularly the United States, panther by itself refers to a puma when the context implies a local species, although the term fl panther is correctly associated only with the melanistic variants of leopards or jaguars rather than pumas. |
 | | The melanistic gene can be seen in a variety of cats, including the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, caracal, jaguarundi, serval, ocelot, margay, bobcat, lynx, and Geoffroy's Cat; however, melanism has never been documented in Puma concolor, although urban legends of "fl panthers" persist. |
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