Cougar behaviours
Territoriality
An occupied range is clearly marked by the resident cougar. This is done by a series of visual and olfactory signals, which are easily recognized by other cats. They make scratch piles are at the same locations where the cougar may urinate or defecate. All cougar make these marks, but males mark more frequently than females. If another male cougar comes into the territory of another it is known for the two males to fight to the death.
Habituation/Observational/Insight
Cougars have been observed sitting at a vantage point and watching, sometimes for hours, people either working or playing out of doors. Hunters, and others, have reported the tracks of a cougar following their own in the snow. The infrequent attacks on humans are usually attributed to old, starving cougar, or to cougar, which are defending their young.
Communication
Cougar produce a wide variety of sounds, the most striking of which is a piercing, drawn-out scream. Cougar also produce a distinctive chuckle as well as many of the house cat sounds; mews, hisses, spits, and growls, while males and kittens frequently emit a whistle-like sound. The whistle is used by the kittens to call to their mother.
Reproductive Behaviours
Observations on the cougar indicate that only the female’s make the scream like sound when they are on heat. The scream calls out to the males and attracts their attention to let them know they are fertile and ready to mate.
Dominance Hierarchies/ Territoriality
It is known that occasionally male cougars will kill or eat a young male so he can up hold his leadership. They also might kill the young as they have a need to maintain their territory.
Territoriality
An occupied range is clearly marked by the resident cougar. This is done by a series of visual and olfactory signals, which are easily recognized by other cats. They make scratch piles are at the same locations where the cougar may urinate or defecate. All cougar make these marks, but males mark more frequently than females. If another male cougar comes into the territory of another it is known for the two males to fight to the death.
Habituation/Observational/Insight
Cougars have been observed sitting at a vantage point and watching, sometimes for hours, people either working or playing out of doors. Hunters, and others, have reported the tracks of a cougar following their own in the snow. The infrequent attacks on humans are usually attributed to old, starving cougar, or to cougar, which are defending their young.
Communication
Cougar produce a wide variety of sounds, the most striking of which is a piercing, drawn-out scream. Cougar also produce a distinctive chuckle as well as many of the house cat sounds; mews, hisses, spits, and growls, while males and kittens frequently emit a whistle-like sound. The whistle is used by the kittens to call to their mother.
Reproductive Behaviours
Observations on the cougar indicate that only the female’s make the scream like sound when they are on heat. The scream calls out to the males and attracts their attention to let them know they are fertile and ready to mate.
Dominance Hierarchies/ Territoriality
It is known that occasionally male cougars will kill or eat a young male so he can up hold his leadership. They also might kill the young as they have a need to maintain their territory.