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There were different mythological adaptions for the winged lion: 1  Shedu in Sumerian, Akkadian, Persian, and Iranian tribes mythology was depicted as a winged lion. 2  He has often been depicted with a bull body instead of a lion body. 3  The winged lion was the heraldic symbol of Mark the Evangelist.
The puma is a large cat of North and South America. It is also commonly called a mountain lion, cougar, or panther. It is about the same size as a jaguar, the only other large cat of the Western Hemisphere. Its scientific name is Puma concolor.