Cougar Fact File

Cougars, also known as mountain loins, pumas, deer cats, catamounts, and panthers, is closely related to domestic cats, much more then to actual lions. Don’t take this as evidence that it is small and petty. It has no natural predators and is armed with its seize, strength, and sharp teeth and claws. They can jump a span six feet long, the seize of a tall full grown man lying on his side.

Cougars are nocturnal, as all felines are, and hunt mostly during the night. This factor calls for extraordinary night vision and amazing eyes that reflect light, making their eyes appear to glow.

These big cats are also solitary animals, and are rarely seen together, other then with their young. As cubs, cougars are covered in black spots and look much like adult-cat-seized-kittens, with fuzzy fur and playful eyes.

Cougars eat a wide verity of food that they eat. They feed on deer, capybara, rabbits, ungulates, elk, moose, and practically everything else that they can catch. They have, like all cats, a carnivorous diet.

A very odd food that cougars love to eat are porcupines. In fact, they are one of the only animals who eat them! The cougars don’t mind the prickles, and usually don’t even eat them. What spines they do eat they merely digest.

But their diet is also something that has put them on the endangered species list. They will prey on livestock like sheep, cows, pigs, chickens, etcetera. Most farms shoot the beautiful wildcats on sight.

Cougars’ conservation status is presently LC, or least concern. Abut, they are still endangered. We don’t want these amazing wildcats to be driven completely to extinction, do we? To be wiped off of the face of the Earth forever? To die a wrongful, unfair death to which they are unable to defend themselves? I say that this is wrong.

And the government has tried to educate the farmers on cougars, to see how amazing they are. This has made little difference. So we need to do our part, too.

Donate to helping save the cougars. Help educate people on them, so that they can help, too. You can help cave the cougars.

~SymphonyCat~