
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.
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