"goodbye, cougar." the eastern cougar is an extinct animal that used to live throughout coniferous and deciduous forest ecosystems in the united states. how did this cougar become extinct? (site 1)

The last specimen of this subspecies was sighted in 1938. The Puma concolor couguar used to occupy a fairly wide territory ranging from southern Canada to Guatemala. However, the destruction of its natural habitat by the human being did not leave him any opportunity to survive.