Puma can eat a wide variety of animals: from mice, squirrels, opossums, rabbits, muskrats, Canadian beavers, raccoons, skunks, armadillos to coyotes, lynxes and other cougars. They also eat birds, fish and even snails and insects. Do not give up the cougar and meadow dog, marmot or monkey.
Unlike tigers and leopards, the puma does not distinguish between wild and domestic animals, at a convenient opportunity attacking livestock, dogs, cats and poultry. Although the main diet of the puma consists mainly of ungulates: black-tailed, white-tailed, pampas deer, wapiti, moose, caribou, thickbread.
In a year, one puma consumes 860-1300 kg of meat, that is, about 48 ungulates.
A large cat of almost monochromatic color, hence the Latin name of the species: conkolor – monochrome. The color of adults varies from grayish brown to brownish-yellow. The coat on the belly is somewhat lighter than on the back and sides. Only the ears, the tip of the tail and the muzzle are dark. In tropical regions, pumas are smaller and rustier, northern beasts are lighter in tone. It is known about the existence of light and even white cougars, as well as dark brown and black individuals, found primarily in Latin America. Pumas albinos and melanists in nature are unknown.
In calves, the color is not monotonous – there are dark spots on the body, on the paws of the band, and on the tail of the ring. The picture disappears only at the age of one.
