Sentence examples for puma from inspiring English sources

As soon as we were at the bottom we began spotting the rock art: strings of llamas, giant flightless birds (rheas) and, all alone on a separate crag, a puma.

In 63 years he had never spotted a puma, though tracks and attacks on lama herds reveal the big cat's presence.

Now it supports but one, known, according to taste, as the cougar, puma or mountain lion.

The puma is being kept under a green awning during quarantine to prevent an attack of nerves, say the Caricuao zoo keepers.

In what Mr Audrines describes as a barter arrangement (in which the Cubans seem to get the rough end), Caracas will trade them for eight macaws, two tapirs, a puma and four capybaras.

WHEN investment banks talked about exotic assets in the 1990s, they generally meant tiger-cub or puma economies such as Vietnam or Peru.

It is in fact the Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility (PUMA) vehicle, developed by General Motors with the help of Segway, which provided the electronic stabilisation system that also appears in its much-derided scooters.

The puma god worshipped by the early peoples appears in many forms.

It includes such animals as the llama, tapir, deer, pig, jaguar, puma, a variety of opossums, many rodents and fishes, and extremely rich insect and bird populations.

The long tail is commonly tipped with black and usually held close to the ground when the puma is walking.

Several firms are now offering puma-tracking trips in the park.