Catamount

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Date Installed:

05/01/2002

Region:

North America

Medium:

Metalwork

Height:

32 in

Width:

7 ft

Depth:

32 in

2D/3D:

Bart Walter

Catamount is another name for a mountain lion, panther, puma, or cougar — a large, long-tailed, unspotted, tawny colored cat. The eastern cougar was known to have lived in North Carolina and twenty other eastern states from Maine to South Carolina and from Tennessee to Michigan.

The Catamount sculpture is made from bronze and is installed atop a natural boulder.

Sponsored by the James C. Raulston Estate

Catamount is located within the Swamp habitat in North America.

A large bronze statue of a Cougar, a big tan cat with round ears, lying with its body flat and ears back on the top of a giant boulder in a forest.

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