Of all the cougar exhibits that I have personally seen I've managed to come up with a list of 13 that have one thing in common and that is the lack of a roof. Two are found in Canada while the others are all in the United States and it seems that an open-topped cougar exhibit is perhaps slightly more common than people realize. Are there any others that I've missed or haven't seen? Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum B.C. Wildlife Park (Canada) Chattanooga Zoo Cougar Mountain Zoo Dakota Zoo DeYoung Family Zoo Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) NEW (Northeastern Wisconsin) Zoo Northwest Trek Wildlife Park Pine Grove Zoo The Living Desert Zoo White Oak Conservation Center Wildlife Prairie Park
When I visited Out of Africa in 2010, I remember seeing an open-topped cougar habitat (the single cat shared the exhibit with a pair of black bears). However, I don't know if that is still the case today.
I've now seen 17 open-topped Cougar exhibits, which is genuinely surprising considering this cat's notoriety for great leaps and bounds. The number is much higher than I would have expected. Greater Vancouver Zoo (Canada) – Cougar – 1998 Northwest Trek Wildlife Park (USA) – Cougar – 2005 B.C. Wildlife Park (Canada) – Cougar – 2006 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (USA) – Cougar – 2008 White Oak Conservation Center (USA) – Cougar – 2008 Cougar Mountain Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2009 Chattanooga Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2010 The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens (USA) – Cougar – 2011 Dakota Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2014 Pine Grove Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2014 DeYoung Family Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2014 Northeastern Wisconsin (NEW) Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2014 Wildlife Prairie Park (USA) – Cougar – 2014 Keepers of the Wild Nature Park (USA) – Cougar – 2015 GarLyn Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2018 Shalom Wildlife Zoo (USA) – Cougar – 2018 Pairi Daiza (Belgium ) - Cougar - 2019
Magnetic Hill Zoo in Canada also has an open top cougar exhibit (at least when I went a number of years ago).
Xcaret park in Mexico has a gorgeous moated puma exhibit; and there is a similar one for jaguars next to it
