The puma, also known as a mountain lion or cougar, lives in mountainous regions of North America and some areas of Canada. They prefer temperatures between 59-66 degrees Fahrenheit and humid, warm climates. Pumas are solitary animals except for mothers and kittens. They are mostly nocturnal and sleep for 4-5 hours per day, hunting small animals, deer, and other pumas. Their populations are threatened by loss of habitat and hunting, with only around 30,000 pumas remaining worldwide.

1. The Puma
By Kayleigh Green

2. This is the puma
Is also known as mountain lion and cougar. A
puma can jump over a school bus the long way.

3. Environment
Pumas live on mountains in the Northwest
and some places in Canada . They live in
temperature 59 degrees Fahrenheit to 66
degrees Fahrenheit . They like humid and
warm climate . They also live in the
Amazon Rainforest.

4. Adaptations
• They have sharp claws to climb trees and
eat
• They retract their claws so it is easier to
walk
• They leave light tracks so predators can’t
find them as easy

5. Physical adaptations
The puma has reddish brown fur a pink nose
and tongue also a white belly.

6. Behavioral Adaptations
• Pumas are very • Pumas sleep 4-5
solitary animals hours a day but it also
• Only mothers and depends how hungry
kittens live together they are
• They eat every hour
but it depends how
hungry the are but
sooner if they find
something good

7. Eating
The puma likes to eat elk, deer, caribou,
squirrel, beaver bobcats and even other
mountain lions

8. Predators
• They are pretty much at the top of the food
chain but they have to look out for
scavengers,
bears and wolves.

9. Threats
A threat is that we are expanding human
settlements and taking away pumas
homes . We also are hunting them which
makes less of them in the wild [There are
only 30,000 pumas left in the WORLD. ]

10. New Environment
After a 1000 years the puma now lives in
Asia which Has the hottest, coldest, driest
and wettest weather. The winters are long
and cold. The summers are short and hot.
Everywhere else except the mountains
there is little rainfall.

11. New Adaptations
The puma would be all black and fluffy in winter so
it can keep warm because dark colors attract
heat.
In the summer the puma would be tan and have
very little fur because light colors don’t attract
heat . The puma would start eating plants
because there is more plants then meat in
Asia. The animal would start living in groups
because they would need protection. They
would sleep less because they would have to
look for predators. A threat would be if a puma
was hiding in bamboo and someone cut it
down the puma wouldn’t have anywhere to
hide. Lastly their new predators would be other
big cats because big cats don’t get along well.

12. websites
• Wiki.anwsers.com
• Ask.com
• Ehow.com
• Chinatownconnection.com
• Animalfacts.com