Puma By LeQuinn Cole

1. PumaBy LeQuinn Cole

2. Classification • Eukarya • Animalia • Chordata • Mammalia • Carnivora • Felidae • Puma concolor

3. Characteristics • Pumas are the second heaviest cat in the Americas, and fourth in the world. • Pumas are very large, with a slender body, long hind legs, and an unpatterned tawny body. • Pumas have the largest hind legs in the cat family. • Can leap up to twenty feet.

4. Habitat • Pumas mostly live in caves or trees, for a hunting advantage. • They live in coniferous and tropical forests, swamps, or grasslands • They’re habitats range from Yukon, Canada to the Southern Andes.

5. Niche • The Puma serves as predator in its habitat. • They survive by hiding in caves and trees to be able catch their prey. • Pumas are heterotrophs and are carnivores.

6. Symbiosis • Since pumas are predators, they experience more competition. • In the northern range, pumas compete with other powerful predators such as the gray wolf. They compete directly with gray wolf for prey.

7. Predators and Prey • The puma has no predators other than humans • The puma preys upon large mammals including deer, and smaller animals such as rabbits.

8. Food Chain Puma Deer Grass

9. Adaptations • Pumas have larger front feet and claws to clutch prey. • They have large and long hind legs for short, powerful sprints, and leaping. • They have a plain and tawny depending on what region there in. • Pumas are adept at climbing since most live around mountainous or rocky terrain. • Since they cannot sprint for long distances, Pumas ambush their prey.

10. Interactions with Humans • Puma attacks on humans are rare. • Pumas are poached mostly in South America.