Throughout much of its range it would be considered the apex predator - at the top.
The top predator over it's range.
grass hedgehog puma human
The puma is a predator and the apex predator of the food chain so is a prey to nothing.
The puma is an apex predator. Nothing else kills and eats it (unless a human hunter decides to eat one he's shot). Other than human hunters, pumas are only eaten when they get sick, injured, or old and are then consumed by scavengers.
Pumas don't get eaten by anything, their dead bodies get eaten but not when their alive.
meat
food, water
because it could mess up the food chain and then everything could be over populated and wouldn't you want your children or your children's children see a puma.
water,food,shelter
It is a food chain.
In most areas the puma would be a level 3 - a secondary consumer that eats herbivores. In other areas they are level 5 - apex predators. Bears, grizzly bears, wolf packs and jaguars are sometimes competitors that out-rank the puma.
A Mekong food chain is a food chain of the Mekong region
it would effect the food chain because one part of the food chain is missing