Cougar

The cougar feirce and respected it's a major predator there is nothing cudly about puma concolor. Agile it ambushes it's prey from the cover of darkness. It has an oppurtunistic diet anything from rodents and birds to moose are not safe. It has been succesful driving even bears away from their cubs. In costa rica and tropical areas it has been discovered that ungulets made up only 35 % of their diet which is suprising compared to 65 % in temperate areas. Only females are involved in parenting when the cubs are borned they have spots and won't open their eyes fror tree weeks. Cougars can kill wolves singally but the tables are turned when faced with a pack of wolves but both predators can kill medium sized predators like bobcats and coyotes. Some cougars relied on bighorn sheep but others rarely kill bighorn sheep. The cougar is an ambush predator stalking from tree spots or grassy plains and ledges or other covered spots like bushes. the cougar in south to central america prefers small to medium sized prey like sloths or armadillos. florida panther picture opposite  right.