What kind of food does a puma eat?

Answer 1

Pumas, also known as Cougars, Panthers, Mountain Lions, or Catamounts, primarily eat deer. Their main prey throughout their range are different species of ungulates, including moose, elk, white-tailed deer, mule deer, and caribou in North America. They will also eat smaller creatures like squirrels, muskrat, porcupine, beaver, raccoon, striped skunk, coyote, bobcats, other mountain lions, rabbits, possums, birds, and even insects, snails and fish.

Answer 2

Like all cats, the cougar is an obligate carnivore, meaning it needs to feed exclusively on meat to survive. Its most important prey species are various deer species, particularly in North America; mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk and even bull moose are taken. Other species such as the bighorn and Dall's sheep, horse, fallow deer, caribou, mountain goat, coyote, pronghorn, and domestic livestock such as cattle and sheep are also primary food bases in many areas.

Answer 3

The cougar will eat any animal it can catch, from insects to large ungulates (over 500 kg) such as deer. Other species such as the bighorn and Dall's sheep, horse, fallow deer, caribou, mountain goat, coyote, pronghorn, and domestic livestock such as cattle and sheep are also primary food bases in many areas.

Answer 4

As an apex predator, only scavengers that come upon a Puma that had died of illness or old age would eat a Puma.

Answer 5

a puma eats big animals such as deer or antelope.

Answer 6

they like to eat just about anything that passes by.

Answer 7

there diet usually contains deer, elk, and moose.

Answer 8

They eat many kinds of animals, very fond of deer.

Answer 9

They eat kinda savagely. They first have to kill or steal the food, then they rip the food apart.

Answer 10

mostly deer,rabbits,other animals it can catch.