The cougar is territorial and survives at low population densities. This cat prefers habitats with dense underbrush and rocky areas for stalking, but can also live in open areas. It will also hunt species as small as insects and rodents. Primary food sources include ungulates such as deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep, as well as domestic cattle, horses and sheep, particularly in the northern part of its range. However they are still considered big cats on this wiki.ДЄn excellent stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. The cougar is more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat (subfamily Felinae), than to any subspecies of lion (subfamily Pantherinae). Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the cougar is properly considered both nocturnal and crepuscular, although sightings during daylight hours do occur. It is the second heaviest cat in the New World, after the jaguar. An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types.

Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America (with expected permanent placement in Alaska in the next few decades), is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. The cougar ( Puma concolor), also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, or catamount, is a large felid native to the Americas. ~60 - 90 cm (24 - 35 in) tall at the shoulder

LeГЈo-baio ('Chestnut Lion', Portuguese).

What people see are larger feral cats at distance which look bigger than they are.This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). Here in Tioga County we have had a few people proclaim to have taken photos of cougars, when hilariously it is very obviously a bobcat. No one has yet found any of that here in PA, nor has gotten a picture either. In any other state where the cougar exists they frequently get hit by cars, scratch up trees, leave prints everywhere, poop everywhere, leave fur around, dead kills, etc. How do I know? Because any state where there are cougars, there is sign and no one in PA has been able to find any despite the large amount of hunters and outdoorsman in PA. So you have the western cougar which has been expanding it's range to the east. Those would have died out in the 1980's and 1990's had not wildlife officials introduced western cougars into the population. The eastern cougars died out in the early part of the 20th century with the exception of the 'Florida Panthers' in the Everglades. There are no mountain lions in Pennsylvania. He told me he estimates it is about 6 to 7 feet long.

He was invited inside to see pics on his computer from his trail cameras. On his way home he stopped to chat with a neighbor to the property and told him he thought he saw a mountain lion heading into his property. He said he saw the cat in archery at a distance. I was talking to one of the others who hunt the same property and told him what I saw. Needless to say the hair on the back of my neck stood up knowing the night before we drug the neighbors deer out just after dark. I had to do a Google search to be positive about what I was looking at. There were several prints that were clear as day. There was snow on the ground, and at first glance I thought I was looking at bear tracks until I got to an area where it was smooth. I was following the tracks from where we drug a deer the night before. As a matter of fact, this deer season I was walking to my hunting spot. However I don't believe them for a minute. There are no mountain lion in Pa!.The game commission told us that.

276 lb mountain lion