Puma

Physical Characteristics

• Adult males can be 2.7 m long with a 60-70 cm long tail and weigh 60 to 100 kg

• Females are substantially smaller

• Adults are usually cinnamoun to rufous brown and have a white underside

• Young pumas are spotted and eventually turn to the colors of an adult

Habitat

• Can live in many habitats from temperate, coniferous forests to low, multistrata, and tropical rainforests

• It can be found from British Columbia to Patagonia

• Found from around 2000 m above sea level to sea level

• The national parks they are found in are the Corcovado National Park, Santa Rosa Park, and the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

Behavior

• The puma is an extremely good hunter

  • It can leap 16 feet in the air

  • Is a good climber

    • Mainly is on the ground however

• They live to an average of 9 years

• They require 100-200 thousand ha to support a population of pumas

Other Facts

• The tropical puma is smaller than the puma in temperate North Amerca

• It is one of the largest cats in the Americas

• They aren't actually dangerous to humans

  • In the last 100 years only 44 fatal attacks have been recorded

• Known as Puma concolor in Latin