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Eastern Cougar
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Additional Names –Puma –Mountain lion –Catamount –Panther
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Physical Description Adult cougars weigh an average of 140 pounds. Next to the jaguar, it is the largest North American cat. Adult cougars are about seven feet from nose to tip of tail. Its tail is almost as long as the body. Its color is brown to gray.
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Physical Description Cougars have binocular vision; their eyes allow them to hunt both day and night. Cougars have cup-shaped ears that move together or independently. Cougars make a variety of sounds including chirps, peeps, purrs, screams, and growls, but they can’t roar.
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Behaviors Cougars can jump 15 feet high and 40 feet wide. Cougars can climb trees and swim rivers. Cougars are solitary hunters; they stay low to the ground and use whatever cover is around. When they get close to their prey, they explode in a sprint up to 35 miles per hour. Cougars often kill old, weak, or sick animals.
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Eating Habits Cougars usually bite on the back of the neck, occasionally the throat. Cougars generally drag their prey out of sights and try to cover it with leaves or grass. Cougars prefer to eat deer, but will eat other large and small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and sometimes insects.
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Habitat Description The cougar was once found over much of North America, including southern Canada. Cougars are found in a variety of habitats, including tidal marshes, deserts, and mountainous terrain. Eastern cougars have been pretty much wiped out from east of the Mississippi river, with the exception of Florida.
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Threats to the Natural Habitat The biggest obstacle to the eastern cougars survival is the loss of undisturbed habitat. The decline in the availability of prey, usually white-tailed deer, hinder the eastern cougars survival.
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Predators Humans have hunted and trapped cougars for years. Humans have eliminated much of its habitat through extensive deforestation.
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Photo Credits Slide 1 Photo: World Wildlife Fund South Florida Water Management District Slide 2 Photo: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Slide 9 Photo: Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
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