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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.
Puma (Puma concolor), also called mountain lion, cougar, panther (eastern U.S.), or catamount (archaic) , large brownish New World cat comparable in size to the jaguarâthe only other large cat of the Western Hemisphere.