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Originally Posted by RoninLB
question about cougars...when at a Ranger Station in Oregon the guy said a full grown male is around 125#...when I was bs'ing with a ranger painting an entrance fence in N Dakota he said the population is few and a full grown male is around 175#...that's a big difference.
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Cougars (aka pumas, mountain lions & panthers) are slender and agile cats. Adults stand about 60 to 80 cm (2.0 to 2.7 ft) tall at the shoulders. The length of adult males is around 2.4 m (8 ft) long nose to tail, with overall ranges between 1.5 and 2.75 meters (5 and 9 ft) nose to tail suggested for the species in general.
Males have an average weight of about 53 to 72 kilograms (115 to 160 pounds). In rare cases, some may reach over 120 kg (260 lb). Female average weight is between 34 and 48 kg (75 and 105 lb). Cougar size is smallest close to the equator, and larger towards the poles.
Some cougar "fun facts":
Did you know?
Next to man, cougars are the most widely distributed land mammal in the Western hemisphere.
Cougars are the 2nd largest cat in the Western hemisphere (Jaguar is bigger).
A cougar can jump upward 18 feet from a sitting position. They can leap up to 40 feet horizontally.
Cougars cannot roar like a lion, but they can make calls like a human scream.
Generally, adult cougars are solitary animals and come together only for mating.
It is more closely related to the common house cat than to the four "big cats": the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard.
Natives of Puget Sound called cougars "fire cats" and believed that each fall the cat carried fire from the Olympic mountains to Mt. Rainier, starting a forest fire along the way.