Cougar additionally accepted as puma, affluence lion, affluence cat, catamount or panther, depending on the region, is a mammal of the ancestors Felidae, built-in to the Americas. This large, aloof cat has the greatest ambit of any ample agrarian terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere, extending from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of South America.
An adaptable, generalist species, the bobcat is begin in every above American abode type. It is the additional heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, afterwards the jaguar. Although large, the bobcat is best carefully accompanying to abate felines and is closer genetically to the Calm cat than to accurate lions.
A able stalk-and-ambush predator, the bobcat pursues a advanced array of prey. Primary aliment sources accommodate ungulates such as deer, elk, moose, and bighorn sheep, as able-bodied as calm cattle, horses and sheep, decidedly in the northern allotment of its range. It will additionally coursing breed as baby as insects and rodents.
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