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Cougars mainly hunt their own food except when they are cubs. Depending where their food source is they will follow it (ex. deer, elk) to where it migrates. Cougars mainly hunt their own food except when they are cubs. Depending where their food source is they will follow it (ex. deer, elk) to where it migrates.

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The diet of a cougar mainly consists of small mammals, deer, elk, and sometimes young bison and moose are taken.

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