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Hunts Alone, Leaps High

Cougars: Where do cougars live, and what are their other names?

Let us meet the cougar. The cougar is also called the mountain lion. It is also called the puma and the panther.

You may think these are three animals. They are not. They are all names for the cougar.

Cougars live from the Yukon in Canada. They live south to the southern tip of Chile. Cougars live in many places, including deserts and forests.

What does a cougar eat? Cougars mostly eat large animals such as deer and elk.

A cougar hunts alone. It stalks its food quietly. Then it leaps.

Let us see what a cougar can do. A cougar can leap about 18 feet straight up. That is about 5.5 meters.

Some people think a cougar can roar. It cannot. A cougar can purr.

Cougar kittens are born with spots. Their eyes are blue when they are born. A newborn kitten weighs about one pound.

A mother cougar gives birth in a den. She cares for her kittens for up to two years.

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