MOUNTAIN LIONS

By : Grant

and

Ryan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Slide2: Anatomy/Physical Description

slide 3: Locomotion (movement)

slide 4: Diet/food chain

slide 5: Habitat

slide 6: Adaptations

slide 7: Life Cycle

slide 8: Species Survival Status

Slide 9: Behavior/Something Special

slide 10: Conclusion

Glossary11:

Bibliography12:

INTRODUCTION

Our report is all about mountain lions.

If you are interested, keep listening. If not, well, too bad!

Mountain lions are large members of the cat family that live in North and South America. Some people call them cougars, pumas, or catamounts.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE FIVE TO NINE FEET LONG. THEY HAVE TAN FUR WITH LIGHTER FUR UNDERNEATH, AND A BLACK TIP ON THEIR TAIL. MOUNTAIN LIONS HAVE A LONG BODY AND TAIL. THEIR TAIL IS ABOUT 3 FEET LONG. MOUNTAIN LIONS HAVE LONG TIPPED CLAWS THAT ARE CURVED. THE BOTTOM OF A MOUNTAIN LION’S FEET HAVE NO FUR.

When mountain lions run, their claw prints don’t show. When they walk their hind feet go in the tracks that their front feet made, making an over lapping pattern. It looks similar to the tracks made by human feet. Dogs tracks are more even and they have claw prints because cats can retract their claws and dogs can’t.

Mountain lions can jump 15 feet high and they can jump 40 feet forward in one jump.

These are pictures of mountain lion tracks.

LOCOMOTION (MOVEMENT)

MOUNTAIN LION DIET/FOOD CHAIN

MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE CARNIVORES. THEY WILL EAT DEER, RABBITS, COYOTES, RACCOONS, AND EVEN PEOPLE’S PETS. THERE IS A MOUNTAIN LION THAT LIVES NEAR GRANT’S AUNT’S HOUSE IN UTAH. IT WALKS AROUND THE HOUSE SOMETIMES AT NIGHT TRYING TO EAT HER DOGS.

MOUNTAIN LIONS EAT COWS, PIGS, CHICKENS, AND OTHER LIVESTOCK, WHICH IS WHY FARMERS SOMETIMES SHOOT MOUNTAIN LIONS.

HABITAT

MOUNTAIN LIONS LIVE MAINLY IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE UNITED STATES, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. MOUNTAIN LIONS SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME ON THE GROUND, BUT THEY ARE GOOD AT CLIMBING TREES. THEY LIKE PLACES WHERE THEY ARE AWAY FROM HUMANS AND A PLACE WHERE THEY CAN HIDE.

ADAPTATIONS

THE VISION OF MOUNTAIN LIONS IS VERY POWERFUL. THEY HAVE GREAT NIGHT VISION.THEY HAVE GREAT HEARING.THEY CAN’T SMELL VERY WELL, WHICH IS AN ADAPTATION BECAUSE AS THEIR NOSE GOT SMALLER, THEIR BITE POWER WAS ABLE TO GROW STRONGER.

MOUNTAIN LION LIFE CYCLE

CUB

YOUNG ADULT

ADULTPRODUCE BABIES

BABY

MOUNTAIN LION SPECIES SURVIVAL

MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE NOT ENDANGERED. THERE ARE ABOUT 30,000 IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. THERE ARE SO MANY IN SOME PLACES THAT THEY ARE DYING OF STARVATION. IN NEVADA, HUNTERS KILL ABOUT 130-150 PER YEAR. THEY HAVE BEEN PROTECTED IN NEVADA SINCE 1965.

MOUNTAIN LION FUN FACTS

MOUNTAIN LIONS ARE THE LARGEST CATS THAT CAN STILL PURR!

MOUNTAIN LIONS HAVE THE MOST NAMES OF ANY ANIMAL IN THE WORLD—OVER 40 JUST IN ENGLISH, ACCORDING TO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS.

CONCLUSIONMOUNTAIN LIONS ARE THE MOST INTERESTING ANIMALS IN NEVADA. THEY ARE VERY SMART, COOL ANIMALS!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.arizonahunting.net/images/lionKaibab07.jpg

http://www.cougarinfo.org/facts.html

http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/ccorbin/Biodiversity/cougar_Stempien.htm

http://mountainlion.org/

http://www.jeffersonfreestate.org/Cat.jpg

http://wdfw.wa.gov/living/species/graphics/cougar6b.jpg

http://www.animalfactguide.com/animal-facts/cougar/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/mountain-lion/

http://www.defenders.org/mountain-lion/basic-facts

www.cougarinfo.org/facts.html

http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/feliconic.htm

http://mountainlion.org/nv/nv2011mtnlionwkshpCarlLackeyPresentation