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.
The diet of a cougar mainly consists of small mammals, deer, elk, and sometimes young bison and moose are taken.
Cougars need a habitat that provides them with prey items as well as food.
Cougars will eat almost any animal they can overtake but their favorite food is the deer as they can get several meals from a single kill.
food
as carnivores.
For food? Sometimes for food but rarley. Cougars will attack a human only if he scares away the cougar's food or wounds it or passes its territory.Because they are predatory, wild animals, cougars will attack humans when provoked.
Cougars receive food by tracking its prey down, stalking it like most other cats, and pouncing on it with a killing bite to the neck or back.
Cougars, Wolves, and Bears
Mostly in the higher elevations in the mountains, but in the winter time it is not uncommon for the cougars to come down from the high mountains looking for food. People who have homes on the foothills of the mountains have been visited by cougars looking for food (dogs, cats, chickens, etc.).
Nothing preys on them for food.
no actuly its predators are cougars
Cougars like deer and they can eat a wide variety of things such as grasshoppers, rodents and elk. They will eat pet food or garbage if they get very, very hungry.
Cougars can be found in Canada, the United States, and in some countries in South America. They are able to eat almost any animal that they find, from mice and squirrels to elk and deer.