Can YOU find the puma? Wild cats can even avoid the specialist tourist guide when in their mountainous environment
The puma’s smooth coat enables it to totally vanish into the background of its mountainous environment – however can you it?
Typically discovered throughout the Americas, the puma is likewise typically called a cougar or mountain lion, and is a camouflage professional.
But in spite of the huge cat’s deceptive nature, specialist tourist guide can find them quickly, pointing them out to enthralled travelers.
Photographer Grey Harvey, 51, chose to test the watchful eye of his guides with a series of photos of the evasive cat taken in Patagonia in Chile.
Will you beat the tourist guide?
Pumas living near the Equator are smaller sized than those living more north or south.
Male pumas can grow to 2.4metres in the wild and weigh approximately 62kg. Females are much shorter and weigh around 42kg.
You’ll need to get up early or keep up into the night to see one however, as they are most active at dawn and sunset and throughout the night.
And their singular nature and practice of taking a trip more than 6 miles every night makes it even harder to track them down.
