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Cougar at rest One of the awesome big cats at the BestZoo, the Netherlands. On interesting facts about the cougar (or Puma as it is often called in Europe) is its diet. It will eat almost anything, ranging from insects to big hoofed animals, it will eat live prey as well as scavenge on dead animals. Whatever it takes to survive, the cougar will eat.  BestZOO,Cougar,Geotagged,Puma concolor,The Netherlands Click/tap to enlarge Country intro

Cougar at rest

One of the awesome big cats at the BestZoo, the Netherlands. On interesting facts about the cougar (or Puma as it is often called in Europe) is its diet. It will eat almost anything, ranging from insects to big hoofed animals, it will eat live prey as well as scavenge on dead animals. Whatever it takes to survive, the cougar will eat.

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The cougar , also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas. Its range, from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes of South America, is the greatest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second-heaviest cat in the New World, after the jaguar. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the.. more

Similar species: Carnivorans
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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By Ferdy Christant

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Uploaded Jun 1, 2012. Captured Apr 21, 2012 14:09 in Molenkampseweg, 5681 Best, The Netherlands.
  • NIKON D7000
  • f/8.0
  • 1/200s
  • ISO360
  • 500mm