MikeMuk1 and the biggest after tiger and lion.

absolutely

true

My spirit animal 😻

@@Bully380 not as big as a Jaguar

It's too bad Cheetahs weren't still native to North America.

⁠@@williamchiafos3889the closest thing we have comes to that is the American cheetah

where I live in my grandparents time there were bounties on them and are still unrestricted today

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, half the county is real protected land, and on one particular trail intersection; there was a mountain lion warning sign that made me afraid of running into them at night, but also begin my admiration for them on top of an assembly from grade school were two captive mountain lions were brought before my class. Unless Jaguars proliferate across the southwest again, or the wolf packs return, which is thankfully happening in some areas, mountain lions love to reign as resident Apex predators with deer being their favorite food to hunt.

Yes - a place to start is to outlaw hunting of cats.

They probably don't consider it a big cat because they cannot roar.

I think that in English you call big cat the species belonging to the panthera genus like the lion, the tiger, the jaguar and the leopard. They are panthers, in the broad sense. The cougar, like the cheetah (which is closest to it), which can sometimes be bigger than some jaguars and leopards, do not belong to the panthera genus.

@@pierre5014 it's not very common that a mountain lion is bigger than a Jaguar

Correctly, they are divided by the terms greater or lesser. And yes mostly because they don't roar.

@Sims3ForeverDude nope, largest on record is 276 lbs.... I ,live in wyoming males average about 150-180 lbs theirs a decent amount of 200 pounders walking through utah

I agree with you. I like mountain lions also. They are so cool. I am so glad you were able to see them at the zoo. They are beautiful animals. One day I would like to be able to pet one.

Wow! That's incredible! We have two staff members in Utah and do the bulk of our camera trapping there. We love hearing about encounters from our followers. Thanks so much for sharing!

Zeuszgrl I hope so before we destroyed nature pumas roamed all of America we probably even had them in long island.

What area have you seen them in?

Call them Cougars! Lol. In the Pacific Northwest here in the USA, they are known as Cougars. If I were to say "Puma" nobody would know what I was talking about. Puma appears to be a European name for them?

@@Ritalie - The word Puma is not European. They are called Pumas in Mexico. 😊

@Ritalie: Lol! I don’t care if my response to you comes 4 years later.😂 Puma is the proper name. Do you know that the PUMA sneakers are name after these felines? Puma is not a European word but from an indigenous language called Quechua spoken by the natives in Peru, Bolivia and Puma means powerful in Quechua language. Learn the facts.

Hi Alex! That's interesting! Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. While researchers have documented leucistic (white, but not albino) mountain lions, there has never been a documented melanistic (black) mountain lion.

Not sure if they are the same species but the heartiest of all cougars are those in the Pacific Northwest.

Mountain lions can purr and chirp like house cats.

@@Sims3ForeverDude pumas weigh more than leopards on average and theirs verified sources of pumas scaring jaguars off of kill sites pumas are impressive for their size

I don't know. I'm in NE Metro-Atlanta, and have one-half acre that is not landscaped. I've heard things at night. Maybe a small breeding population has survived.

@@Armistead_MacSkye I hope so! But probably it's the western puma. That one is (relatively) common in Florida

@@FossilBox That is not a "western puma." That panther is native to FL. In GA, in the 1930s, my grandma saw a black-phase panther.

@@Sims3ForeverDude snow leopards are in panthera and are way smaller than pumas on average which weigh about 100 lbs

@@Sims3ForeverDude which is why I said that.... pumas are the 4th biggest cat, tiger, lion, jag, then puma, then leopard, then cheetah and then snow leopard

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Agreed 100%..Hunting with a pack of dogs is not hunting or sport as they call it. It's just killing... the dogs are doing the hunting,these so called hunter's are just patting them self's on the back as big men when most are cowards.

I love it when hunters are killed by the animals they hunt. It fills my heart with such gladness.

Homo Martian Real men don't need guns or an entourage of dogs for hunting. All cats from tigers to domestic cats are awesome. Humans can find a way to coexist with nature and these magnificent predators. Killing them is abominable.

I can guarantee you, there are no people on earth who care more about conservation than hunters. The money they pay for tags and licenses goes directly towards the forest service and conservation as a whole. Mountain lions are a species of least concern.

I don't hunt; but I don't condemn hunting either. I have seen what happens when a specific animal such as deer are protected and have absolutely no predators. Their population booms until conflicts with humans is unavoidable. They can become plagued by disease(s) that can quickly spread through a dense population. In the case of the deer that I observed, deer-car collisions were almost a daily occurrence; often more than one accident in a day. They get injured but don't die and end up hobbling around with a broken leg dangling like a voodoo doll hanging on a car's rearview mirror. Due to increased population, their nutrition suffers as there are too many animals eating the vegetation, which isn't sufficient for the number of them in the area. Cougars are a bit different, but still suffer from over population. Just like deer or any other animal that can't get enough to eat, cougars will come in to areas populated by humans. Restaurant dumpsters, local wildlife and even pets become a meal for these cats. Just like any other animal that over populates, they become prone to disease and injury. As much as I dislike any animal being hunted; I understand the need for hunting. Humans have reduced the numbers of predators (some of which pray on other predators), so animal populations tend to grow unchecked. In cases where wildlife become too numerous, hunting is a necessary evil.

Whos gonna do something to keep the human quantity small?