Pictures and video of mountain lion with probable domestic or stray cat in its mouth

Do mountain lions eat cats? Well yes and this screenshot from a video pretty well proves it.

If you were researching whether mountain lions attack and kill domestic, stray and feral cats, this photo and video probably answers the question pretty conclusively. Although observers of the video can’t be sure that the animal is a cat. Although it very much looks like it. It might be a small dog. It is …

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Pictures of a puma on an iceberg off the Upsala glacier in Patagonia’s Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina

Picture of a puma on an iceberg off the Upsala glacier in Patagonia's Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina

These pictures and video are all over the internet and you can see why because no one has seen a puma, aka mountain lion, wandering around and resting on a small iceberg in the middle of what I believe is Lake Argentino. It is not the sea but a large lake in this magnificent …

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Residents of Los Angeles and its environs treasure their mountain lions

Scar the 5-year-old puma mysteriously shot in Santa Ana Mountains

NEWS AND COMMENT: There is a nice relationship between the citizens of Los Angeles and its environs and the mountain lion a.k.a. the puma which is good to see. They’ve clubbed together to build the world’s largest wildlife bridge to expand the habitat of the mountain lion in the Santa Ana Mountains just north …

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How many miles do mountain lions travel?

Mountain lion travelling

How many miles do mountain lions travel in a day? Unfortunately there isn’t much information on this topic but nonetheless I have some information. M.E. Musgrave tells us in their “Some habits of mountain lions in Arizona” (1926) published in the journal Mammal that ‘an old tom’ (old male mountain lion) covered more than …

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Injuries incurred when pumas attack prey can ultimately kill them

Puma aka mountain lion

In one study, 27% of natural mortality of the puma was related to injuries sustained while trying to capture prey. The study was published in 1995 and is called Fatal trauma sustained by cougars while attacking prey in southern Alberta. It was conducted by P.I. Ross, M.G. Jalkotzy and P.-Y. Daost. How many pumas …

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Mountain lions invade the capital of Chile, Santiago, due to lockdown and other factors

The coronavirus pandemic lockdowns have altered the relationship between people and wild animals. This article is about mountain lions in Santiago but it might well apply to other wild species for the same reasons. A combination of factors has resulted in seven mountain lions being tranquillized and captured in Santiago, the capital of Chile …

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