Cougars are just awesome. They give us something to admire, fear and love all at the same time. They, along with Jaguars are my favorite cats and have been since I'm a child. Now I'm an old man so I guess I kept my distance and admired these wonderful cats from afar, lol. Mountain lions have such a vast range and such a vast diet that they can basically survive in any atmosphere, gotta be in love with them while kinda fearing them at the same time. They really are one of natures gems

I stumbled upon one of these beautiful lions while hiking in Flagstaff, Arizona. It looked at me and quickly ran away. I'm glad I was too ugly for him.😁

This is the best ML video/documentary that i have found online yet. Thank you so much for posting this video. I am fascinated by these animals. I am very happy to see my tax dollars at work on such a fantastic project... love watching people who are passionate about their work.

LOL That dog is looking at the camera like "Well, we found the SOB now what do we do?" 4:08

"The thing about Mountain Lions is they see you, not the other way around"-Aurther Morgan

I want to help protect these beautiful animals. Is there any way I can help

I've seen 2 moantain lion before. 1 in my backyard when I was living in King city CA and the other at a hiking trail in San Jose CA Almaden park

hiking here in AZ since 1973..never saw a Mt. Lion, but maybe one saw me !! eek!

I saw a dead mountain lion off interstate 8 maybe 20 miles south of Gila Bend today. Was a big one.

Such beautiful cats. I hope the foot snares don't hurt the cats.

I think you should stop doing what you’re doing or leave them alone you trap them you hurt them if it’s a female with babies you’re taking it away from feeding her babies by the time you get to each trap who knows how long it takes you to get there so for days the animal starving her babies are starving The babies can leave their hiding spot and get killed by other animals

Had no idea there was mountain lions here. One crossed in front of my car on the way to work tonight. Brought me here

These things are my worst fear. That being said I’d never hurt one and have nothing but respect for them. But man they scare me.

Great video. I spotted a large mountain lion near my home in Oracle AZ very beautiful animal.

I live out in Rio Rico and there’s a mountain lion that likes to go through my back yard. We caught him on our motion sensor camera a few times that and a bob cat. They also like to go over to my neighbor’s yard and drink from their pool. All the houses are really spread out so it’s a quiet area with plenty of small animals for wild cats to eat. Not to mention plenty of places to blend in lol.

0:19 omg now that's pretty cute😂🐱

Saw one last night about 6:30 PM along side a bush near highway 89 between Cameron and Flagstaff.

Magnificent creatures 🥰. I’d love to see one up close in a zoo one day.

Great predator. Hopefully will be around us for long time.

About two years ago I saw a huge Mountain Lion right about sunset cross the street 200 meters from my house here in Springerville, Arizona. On my move here one bounded across Highway 60 several hundred meters in front of me near the NM/AZ states' line just east of town. My first mountain lion sighting was in the Bridger Mountains, Montana. It was a young one and it was sniffing where I peed several hours earlier.

While I was visiting my parents in Scottsdale at their home in the Legend Trails private preserve it was 9:30 in the morning and a mountain lion was walking in the wash mere feet from where I was standing. I didn't move. Thankfully, everything went fine. There are plenty of mountain lions in the low mountains of Northern Scottsdale. Prior to this, they lived in the Sincuidados neighborhood also in North Scottsdale and there were many sightings of mountain lion there too.

Also here in Tennessee

I have a very cropped picture of a cougar that I saw in a ravine near Globe, Arizona in 2019.

When I was a toddler, my dad would get calls from the ranchers to hunt mountain lines, wolves, coyotes, bobcats. He would take me along and pile them into the bed of the truck. I got to sit on them, look at their eyes, fangs, huge paws and they have the most beautiful eyes. No such thing as using dogs, just a horse, traps and his rifles. My dad’s Navajo, never seen any of people use dogs. lol

Great video!

I love you Arizona

I enjoyed this very much!

Thank you very good informative video.

I saw a mountain lion in flagstaff Arizona when I was hiking I almost sat on one

great video, gorgeous cats. these are longer, slimmer cats than our Vancouver Island lions. i imagine it's climate related.

It's unusual that a Texan (or somebody with a non-Arizonan manner of speech) narrates an Arizona video. ~ Saved to my large Arizona playlist. Thanks for posting.

Imagine walking a trail far away from civilization and finding a lion looking at you. 😮

They are so beautiful

What beautiful animals.

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I live near flag Az in a place named garland prarie and i got stacked and when i locked back and saw it it didnt move at all for like 10 minutes

Great Video! Majestic animal too!

Using foot snares to capture an animal is very dangerous to the animals health👎👎👎👎👎

Think you need to update your map, Mountain Lions are found in West Virginia just as an example.

Has using the foot snares for catching cougars ever injured the paws of the animal?

Love these big cats WISH PEOPLE WOULD leave them alone the human so CALLED humans hate most of them selfish twatt

I thought the same, but then i concluded that they are probably right. Those you name are subspecies and the mountain lion was said to be the 4th largest species. Anyways, tiger and lion are the two largest species, jaguars are a little larger than cougars, and if i remember correctly both leopard and snow leopard are smaller than cougars (though these are veeery similar in size). Cheetahs are smaller, all other felines are negligible.

Mountain Lions have come as far as MI and that's a fact. Plenty of fresh sightings.

You would think in this day and age they could do away with strapping those car batter sized tracking collars and get some smaller and less invasive

Your map is not accurate. Mountain lions are common throughout the state of Missouri in the mountains and as far north as Chicago.

Wonderful film...thanks!

Very interesting

Beautiful

We have them here in Florida, but their called the Florida panther.

They are.

2nd largest in North America? Who is the first?

Could a mountain lion watch someone walking along a nature path without attacking him or her?

Does the trap hurt the lion? Can’t you study them without trapping them? I prefer them to be free.

what do you mean "the second largest cat in north america"? what is bigger, a jaguar? i dont think we have those in north america, generally

Bruh we gonna camp in payson today

Pathers are jaguars and Mountain lions are different look it up son.

A bicyclist was chased by one in Virginia, so the map isn't quite correct.

I thought leopards were bigger than pumas

Your naming subspecies they don't base it off of that it's simply tiger lion jaguar mountain lion leopard etc.

They learn to hang wear the food is follow a highway to feed on road kill or deer injured by autos !

I prefer to call them cougars

come to mass there here i seen a black one

How about we leave them alone 🧐

Its weird how the mountain lion is heaver than the leopard but the leopard is stronger

Wow truly amazing animals please leave them alone

I found a mtn lion trail in sedona, ive seen him right smack on the side of the hwy 179 as i was walking, only 20 yards from me. It was 9:45pm, i shined my mag light in his face and he ran off. Talked to old man lee (fish and game) last yr and he seemed to not care so i decided to hunt it. Not to kill it but to do what lee should have done, to let the cat know that lurking in town will get it killed. Shame on sedona's fish and game representative for being a lazy bum. I had over a dozen people tell me they saw the big cat in town. The local paper (red rock news) also did nothing. 3 people actually told me they thought the cat was stalking them. I can tell you this, it was stalking me, which is why i decided to confront it and run it off. When our government fails to do its job, the public needs to step up. Now i am asking the state of arizona to pay me for my services. To my knowledge it has left the area but it could have just learned to be more careful and not be seen lurking around. Thanks mr. Lee, retire already. Studying these cats is very important but the safety of the citizens is much more important. That is for the bums at fish and game arizona. Im not waiting for a big cat to kill a child or one of my pets, im not our government, i will protect them before they fall victim.

we got them in mi

Brian jansen take me out on a mountain lion sighting date

Oh do I wish I could post a picture here! I camp up on the moogion rim and one of the camp hosts gave me two pictures of two mountain lions some guys killed up here and I kid you not the mountain lions body was as long as the man from ground to shoulders just huge! That's the day I went out to buy a gun...I'm sure ive encountered one on a hike and once i was sitting at a creek could just feel something watching me and turned where my back wasn't facing him..its not joke you've got to scan your surroundings constantly! I see the bones of elk and deer where they've eaten right down to the bone tearing every bit of meat off "I don't want that happening to me" if we're going to enjoy the outdoors we've got to respect nature.. I hand fed a bull elk a couple weeks ago and I'll never do that again! I was just in the moment and didn't realize how fast he could of killed me! They're beautiful animals but very unpredictable too! Just because they come up to us doesn't always mean they have good intentions....

wonderful animal please protect them

Washington cougars

Beautiful animal!! Please don't hunt them for sport!

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dud those things are everywhere stop lying to people i seen them i night they travel parallel to hihhway

The 4th largest? Hmm, let's see... there's the Siberian tiger, the Bengal tiger, the Sumatran tiger, the Indochinese tiger, the South chinese tiger and the Malayan tiger. Then there's the African lion and the Indian lion. Then we have all the different species of leopards and jaguars. It seems odd that the Mountain lion would be the 4th largest even if you compared it with just the largest tiger, lion, leopard and jaguar. I know the Mountain lion is big but it's not THAT big :)

Panther, cougar, etc. Call them what you want? Uhm, those are not all the same animal dude.

Arizona: Protecting mountain lions and banning books on Latino history in Tucson. Nice.