Jointed Pricklypear vs puma

Opuntia aurantiaca compared with Puma concolor

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Jointed Pricklypear	puma
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Caryophyllales (Caryophyllales)	Carnivora (Carnivorans)
Family	Cactaceae	Felidae (Cats)
Genus	Opuntia	Puma (Pumas)
Species	Opuntia aurantiaca	Puma concolor

Conservation Status

Jointed Pricklypear

LC — Least Concern

puma

LC — Least Concern

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Jointed Pricklypear	puma
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Jointed Pricklypear

Habitat

Inhabits flooded grasslands and savannas and deserts and xeric shrublands within the Afrotropic biogeographic realm.

Range

Distributed across Australia, Eswatini, Jamaica, Namibia, and South Africa.

puma

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Colombia, Ecuador, United States, and Venezuela.