Eastern Cougar

Most cougars are desribed as a large, unspotted, long tailed, cats.  It is reddish white or pale reddish.  The inside of their ears are light colored with a blackish color behind their ear.

Mounatian lions are carnivors.  They eat different species of ungulates  (Hoofed mammals).  They will also eat smaller creatures including porcupines,  muskrat,  coyote,  bobcats,  other mountain lions,  rabbits,  opossums,  and even snails and fish.  They may also prey on domestic livestock  like poultry,  goats,  sheep,  and pigs.  Mountain lions have a distinctive manner of hinting larger prey.  The lion quietly stalks  the prey animals,  then leaps at close range onto their back and breaks the animals neck with a powerful bite below the base of the skull.  Yearly food consumption is bewteen 860 to 1,300kg of large prey animals,  about 48 ungulates per lion per year.  Mountain lions catch large prey, dragging it up to 350 meters from the place of capture and burying it under leaves and debris.  They return nightly to feed.

Cougars begin to breed when they are atleast 2 or 3 years old,  and there after breeding once every 2 to 3 years.  Courship is initiated by the female  and generally includes mating with a number of males.  Males mainatain territories that overlap with several females. 

Cougars use a wide a wide veriety of habitats including monate coniferous forest,  lowland tropical forest,  glassland,  dry brush country,  swamps, and any areas with adequate cover and prey.  Dence vegetations, caves and rocky crevices provide shelter

Mounatian lions are important as top predators in the ecosystem in were they live.  They are active and inportant in controlling populations of large ungulates.