Mountain Animals Lion. The cougar is the second largest cat in the new world after the jaguar. Mountain lions are solitary creatures and outside of mating adults rarely interact.
The mountain lion goes by many names including cougar catamount panther red tiger deer tiger and puma. Mountain lions are solitary creatures and outside of mating adults rarely interact. But hunting these larger animals brings risk to the cats and many mountain lions suffer life threatening injuries received from a hunt especially from a prey s sharp horns antlers or hooves.
The mountain lion is in the guinness book of world records as the animal with the most nicknames.
The mountain lion used to be found all over the united states but now is primarily seen in the western u s. After the jaguar it is the second most sizable cat as well as one of most formidable of all mammals living in the wild in the western hemisphere. Behavior of the mountain lion. The mountain lion also called the cougar puma or panther is a large terrestrial animal with most breeds being native to north america.