Assertion: cougar | /r/HasProperty | extinct
Facets:
value: in tennessee
type: LOCATION
value: by increasing deforestation
type: CAUSE
value: by the late 1800
type: TEMPORAL
value: nearly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Cougars were nearly extinct by the late 1800's, and increasing deforestation, which reduced the cougar's habitat and its main food source the white-tailed deer, spelled the final destruction of the eastern cougar.
text: Today the panther is extinct in Tennessee, save possibly a half dozen individuals in the Great Smokies.
text: Indeed the cougar used to roam across the entire U.S., but cougars east of the Mississippi are now considered extinct, with the exception of the Florida panther.