Animal

Animal

Rajah Pound

Ms. Swanner

Pumas

What are these animals who eat meat? The ones who can't roar? The ones who only live in America and Canada? If you guessed pumas … you are CORRECT!!

Character Traits

. And the pumas are part of the wildcat family. It was put in the small part of the wildcat family because it can't

roar. Pumas have the colors tawny, red , brown, golden , yellow , and white. The tip of their tails are black. The body shape is slender, with long legs.The pumas weigh 1 pound(16 OZ.) when it has it's birth. A pumas scientific name is Puma /Felis Concolor. Did you know that the LARGEST PUMA WEIGHS 227 POUNDS ? THAT IS HUGE!!

Habitat

Pumas lived in the forest from California to New Mexico. Pumas can be found in the western United States and in Canada. The pumas mainly live in jungles and mountain caves. The only eastern states that a puma can be found is in Florida.Pumas are native to Asia, America, and Africa. Even a tropical forest is their common habitat.

Eating Habits

A puma is a fearsome predator(and carnivore). Their prey are insects, birds, deer, mice, capybara, porcupines, and bighorn sheep. And after a puma eats part of its prey, the puma buries it for a night snack. Deer are the main prey. Pumas can eat 3,000 pounds of meat a year.

Fears

The puma's predators are bears and wolves, and other pumas. They're afraid of losing their habitat, because people move in places they live. Pumas are fast runners, so it can help them get away from the horrible enemies. When people build places in their homes, it makes it harder for pumas to find homes.

A pumas life

When a puma is born, it opens it's eyes 10 days later .When puma's are 2 years old, they leave their mother as their life goes on. Pumas give birth to 1 to 5 cubs aproximately 2 months after mating. When the cubs are born the father leaves the family. They learn how to attach their prey. Pumas Have a wonderful life style. They can live from 10 – 20 years of life. In captivity, from 20 -30 years of life.

Endangered??

This is terrible news! The Eastern and the Florida pumas are endangered. But the good news is that the esimated population is 50,000 left, that is still a lot. But in Alberta,Canada there is a estimated population of 700. That is not very much. Even worse, people kill pumas for their fur. THANKS A LOT HUNTERS AND POACHERS!!:(

In the southern part of Columbia, South America there is a population of 3,500- 5,000 pumas left.

Behavior

Pumas are acullay kind to us human beings. Because pumas are very unlikely to harm people. Plus, pumas have a strange solitary group behavior. Pumas are only mean and nasty to the prey and the enemies. But they are sweet and kind animals to us. Probably because we help them survive.

And this is my report about pumas.

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