Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Cougar


The cougar also known as a puma,mountain lion,mountain cat,catamount or panther, depending  on the region, is a mammal of the family Felidae,native to the Americans.This large solitary cat has the greatest range of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere,extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of south America. A successful generalist predator,the cougar will eat anything it can catch,from insects to large animals(over 500kg).LIke all cats, it is a carnivore feeding only on meat.
They go and build a den in the side of a mountain and sleep the rest of the winter.In the spring they are really hungry so they go and hunt usually deer,elk,raccoons,feral,pigs,and frogs.So there you have it. By A.t