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Cougar Predation
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Post anything you can find on cougar predation on this thread. Both new and old accounts.
https://billingsgazette.com/outdoors/ferocious-appetites-study-finds-mountain-lions-may-be-eating-more/article_d9cf046b-2c47-539f-a267-972e72e570b6.html Here, one cougar kills 18 moose in less than a year, pretty impressive for them.  (04-28-2019, 05:39 AM)smedz Wrote:great find ! @smedz cool to watch. Pretty much like leopard killing sambar (like this https://wildfact.com/forum/topic-leopard...2#pid80982 @smedz ). Difference I found is leopard use it's hind claws to push away deer (at 4:34) when they hit them with those hooves and it's a long struggle unusually like leopards. 
An account of a cougar killing a wolf.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/predator-vs-prey/rare-footage-of-cougar-vs-wolf-battle-in-canadas-wilderness/
https://www.washington.edu/news/2016/07/14/cougars-could-save-lives-by-lowering-vehicle-collisions-with-deer/
Here's an article on how cougar predation on White-tailed Deer in the Eastern U.S.A can be very beneficial to us. Hunters won't like this, but this is what science is telling us, and if they don't like it, that's their problem. *This image is copyright of its original author Florida Panther hunting a Feral Hog. Very helpful.
Proportions of prey species in Puma scats and relative mammalian and reptilian biomass consumed by Pumas at Hato Pinero, Venezuela located in the Venezuelan Llanos.
(Daniel Scognamillo, Ines Esperanza Maxie, Mel Sunquist and John Polisar) Picture credit to the late Ernesto O. Boede)  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
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