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Puma By LeQuinn Cole

Puma By LeQuinn Cole. Classification. Eukarya Animalia Chordata Mammalia Carnivora Felidae Puma concolor. Characteristics. Pumas are the second heaviest cat in the Americas, and fourth in the world.

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Puma By LeQuinn Cole

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  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.

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