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Cougars, Mountain Lions, and Pumas
The mountain lion is a large feline native to the US and other regions of the western hemisphere. Mountain lions are also known by various local names — puma, panther and cougar. They are most noted for their ability to leap to and from great heights, killing animals as big as themselves.
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Can a dogo argentino kill a mountain lion?
yes it can and there are some accounts on it
These are killer cats and when they are hungry they will destroy
almost anything
Is it legal to shoot cougars in Louisiana?
Cougars used to live in Louisiana, but were wiped out by habitat loss and hunting quite a while ago. This is also the case in most other states east of the Rocky Mountains (except Texas and Florida).
Can cougars live in a neighborhood?
Cougars are mainly active at night when people are sleeping. Their habits are difficult to observe. They tend to stay away from people. Most cougars live out in the countryside. Still, a few live relatively close to cities. Most do not.
What are other names for a panther?
The panther is actually a melanistic leopard so leopard would be a proper name for the panther.
Do mountain lions live in South Dakota?
According to wildlife expert Ken Burton on the enature website, there are mountain lions in Western NC along the Smoky Mountains.
Yes, usually in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Probably escaped pets or wandered up from Florida.
How do mountain lions use their teeth?
Seals use their teeth for opening food items like for example, clams or look up their other crustacean food sources that have hard shells. Anyway seals usually have many different sets of teeth. And to add to that they are very sharp too
Are cougars and mountain lions the same?
Panther, puma, cougar, or mountain lion are all different names for the same animal.
Yes, there are about 4 names for a cougar. Mountain lion is the most common name.
Yes
When was the cougar placed on the endangered list?
The main threats to the species are hunting for its fur and the pet trade and habitat loss due to deforestation. The margay does not adapt well to human disturbance, and is almost extinct in the northern parts of its range. Hunting has decreased significantly due to international protection, but illegal harvesting still occurs locally.
Mountain lions do not live in any areas that have a lack of oxygen.
What animals are pumas predators?
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.
Fawn to light brown, with black around the muzzle.
its a nice crispt brownesh color
Cougars are tawny to gray with white underparts and have dark brown markings on the back of the ears, the sides of the nose, and the tip of the tail. The Florida cougar, or Florida panther, a subspecies native to southern Florida, is reddish brown.
The puma is a type of Cougar. It is a quick and mean big cat. The length of a puma's claws are approximately 6.5 centimeters.
How are pumas and panthers the same?
The word "Panther", is a generic term for any medium sized big cat, such as the leopard, jaguar, and cougar or mountain lion. Often, the term is used to describe black specimens of the leopard and jaguar. The puma has more names than any other cat, often called cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, panther.
What do pumas and jaguars eat?
pumas eat deers elks and mooses jaguars eat insects berries and fresh meat
Are there any mountain lions in Alaska?
no. mountain lions are only found in 13 states in America.
Arizona, Idaho, California, Colorado, Florida, South Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, Washington, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
A cougar can eat an owl of it is able to get it. Owls are hardly eaten by any predators and they are commonly the top predator.
Yes, pumas are found all over North, Central and South America.
Pumas like to 'den up' in small caves near the crests of mountains.
What are the mating habits of pumas?
Sexual maturity is attained by females about two and a half years of age, and males at about three years. There is no specific breeding season, although in North America most births occur in late winter or early spring. Females usually give birth every other year. Gestation is between 90 and 96 days. Litter size ranges from one to six, but is usually three or four kittens. They weigh between eight and 15 ounces and are spotted until they are six months old. The kittens nurse for approximately three months but may begin eating meat at six weeks. The kittens are able to accompany their mother on hunts at approximately six months and are able to make their own kills a few months after that. They usually stay with their mother for about two years. Litter mates stay together two to three months after leaving their mother. Reproductive activity does not begin until the young establish their own individual home range
They're mammals, so just like your pet cats do at home, they even fern their young the same too - from mammary glands.
So in answer to your question - Mrs. Puma has an eggs ready for Mr. Puma to fertilise inside of her, which they do by copulation (or a special hug). Mr. Puma fertilises the eggs and they grow into kittens inside Mrs. Puma. Then she gives live birth to the small baby Pumas.
sexually
What species do mountain lions belong to?
The Puma concolor is known as a mountain lion, cougar, panther, puma, catamount, mountain cat, mountain screamer, painter and other names.
It was previously placed in the genus Felis, but is now in Puma.
Native to the Americas, it is a large, solitary cat with a range from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes Mountains in South America.
Genus - Puma (no longer in Felis)
Species - concolor
Family - Felidae
How much does a eastern cougar weigh?
Cougars are the fourth largest cats. Males will generally weight 53 - 100 kilograms (115 - 220 pounds). Females, as with most mammals, are smaller and come in at 29 - 64 kilograms ( 64 - 141 pounds).
Cougars are carnivores. They mainly prey on white-tailed deer and elk, but have also been known to eat smaller mamals, such as raccons.
yes they are carnivores
yes a mountain lion is a carnivore
Yes, indeed it is.
yes but, like bears, they may occasionally consume plants or berries
YES!
Yes.
yes they eat meat
yes they are. but the can be a vegetarian by the way that the puma is raised
How do you know if the cougar is endangered?
As a species, the cougar is not endangered. But the subspecies in Florida, called "Florida panther", is endangered.
