Description:

Common Name: Puma
Also Known As: Mountain Lion

The pumas are the largest cat species in the new world. The height for males is 8 feet and it weighs up to 220-lbs. Females weigh up to 160 and reach up to 6 lbs. The female can have 3-5 babies. So the male puma has to get food for the female, so it doesn't hurt the babies.

The puma eats animals that are even bigger then it's own size. They eat animals like deer, elk, and moose. In the winter they can eat up to 20-24 deer.

Their color is reddish brown but most of it is white.

In the morning the male puma leaves it's wife and the cubs and leaves to go hunt. His eyes capture his prey and slowly start to get closer and closer and even closer. Suddenly the puma runs after its prey. The puma is aiming to get its fangs inside of the prey's neck, so it can slow it down. Then he would drag it by the neck back home or maybe up to the tree. When he gets home the family will eat. If that is not enough the puma will go back and get some more like elk, deer, sheep, and moose.

Environment:

The puma live in very cold places. Some live in the polar climates. There are so few pumas that live in the polar climates. Most of the pumas live in the British Columbia and Alaska. Almost 84% live in jungles of Africa.

Problems:

There are many reasons the puma is endangered. A long time age there were many pumas. Man started finding out about pumas. Humans started hunting the pumas to get the meet and use their fur for cloth. They found out how hard it was to hunt pumas. So rich people hired poor people who needed the money to kill a puma for an amount of money. Many of the people how went to kill the puma were never seen. So later on men started a new sport, which was to kill a puma. The numbers of the pumas started going down. Then men invented guns. It was much easier then using spears. After guns the puma's average was going down.

Solutions:

Men had realized that the average of pumas was going down. So people started mentioning that we should be helping the puma's average to raise. First thing that was done is to make hunting pumas illegal. Then men began to find out that the average was going up slowly.

Then men noticed that the environment needed to be clean. Humans started cleaning the environment for them self's and the pumas and other animals. By doing this, the average of the pumas began raise slowly. The female's pumas started having more babies, and that made more and more pumas.

Summary:

I chose to write about the pumas because their eyes look so evil. They would stare at their prey. I was also interested in the way that they tear their prey apart. They use their fangs so wisely. If they weren't on earth it would have a lot of effect on the ecosystem because the puma gets their energy by eating other animals like deer. The population of the deer and elks will go up and there would be many changes in the ecosystem.

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