Jeremy Bentham: The question is not, “Can they reason?” nor “Can they talk?” but, “Can they suffer?”
The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar