Basic Facts
Basic Facts (cont.)
Hunting
Mating and Vocals
Cubs
100
Other names for cougars are these. (name at least one)
What is puma, panther, and mountain lion?
100
Cougars can mate at the age of these years. (Female and male are different).
What is 2 years for a male; 3 years for a female?
100
Cougars can move nearly silently due to this.
What is the thick fur padding at the bottom of the paw?
100
T/F; the cougars' mating season is the spring.
What is false?
100
Cubs are weaned at this age.
What is 3 months?
200
Cubs are (spotted; plain tawny brown) whereas an adult cougar is (spotted; plain tawny brown).
What is spotted; plain tawny brown?
200
Cougars tails can grow up to this long.
What is 3 feet?
200
Cougars mainly pounce from ______ ground of its prey.
What is level?
200
A male and female cougar will spend this amount of time together in order to mate.
What is 2 weeks?
200
Cubs are able to eat solid food at this age.
What is 6 weeks?
300
Cougars are the only mammal (besides humans) that range the farthest which ways?
What is north-south?
300
Up north, cougars would weigh up to this much.
What is 275 pounds?
300
In order to kill it's prey a cougar must do this.
What is bite the back of its prey's neck while using its hind legs to support itself?
300
A cougar has a hyoid bone at the base of its tongue so that it may do this.
What is pur?
300
At birth, cubs weigh approximately this much.
What is 14 ounces?
400
The litter size ranges from these numbers.
What is 1-6 cubs.
400
While running (bounding) the cougar keeps its front and back paws ________________ (more than one word).
What is close together?
400
A cougar will only need to kill one deer per week because of this.
What is one deer is too much for one solitary cougar and cougars are very solitary?
400
A cougar is unable to roar because of this.
What is it has no flexible cartilage on its hyoid bone?
400
A cub learns how to hunt by... (name at least 1 way)
What is playing with its siblings, learning from its mother, playing with its food, foliage, or its mother's tail, or climbing trees?
500
The favorite food of a cougar is this.
What is white-tailed deers?
500
A cougar can jump up to this far.
What is 30 feet?
500
A cougar will do this to save it's food to eat later.
What is loosely cover its food with foliage?
500
A male is unable to mate at this age, and a female at this age.
What is 20; 12 years?
500
A cougar is born in a maternity den lined with this.
What is moss and other plant life?
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