. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. ^rs as to tlie at a birth. y vary Trom )erience, and md trappers, never iound pretty little THK c(»r.;Ai:. 407 creatures they are, spotted, and sometimes striped like the turquoise-shell cat. Tlie den tliey are born in is nsually a cave in the rock on the mountain-side, or a hollow tiee in some dense thicket. Tiie Cougar is ji afl'ectionate mothe
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. ^rs as to tlie at a birth. y vary Trom )erience, and md trappers, never iound pretty little THK c(»r.;Ai:. 407 creatures they are, spotted, and sometimes striped like the turquoise-shell cat. Tlie den tliey are born in is nsually a cave in the rock on the mountain-side, or a hollow tiee in some dense thicket. Tiie Cougar is ji afl'ectionate mother, and will light to tlie death in defense of her young. The Cougar is stat'^d by natui'nlists to be a nocturnal animal, but in this Miey are also nustaken. Tie may be noctmiial in a measure, Itut he is also diurnal, and seeks his prey by day as well as night, as many a poor rancher can testify, through losses of colts, sheep, calves, and cattle, day-victims to this greedy maraudei-. Neither is it tiie cowardly animal that the above-named gentlemen term it, hut it will fight boldly in dv'fense of its young or its prey. In another place I will relate several instances where it has attacked peo^ile in daylight, and, on the other liand, I have never known it to attack a person at night. The food of the Cougar consists of Deer, Iinal cord. WwX, tnere are exceptions t(» this method, as in the case of fawns and children These the Cougai . 'izes and carries away as a cat does a mouse. But the fa;orite food of the ('ougar appears to be liorse-llesh, and the youngei' the colt, tht more to his taste. If the mare light in defense of her colt, she will also become a victim, for the Cougar is a determined brute, and only interference on the ])ai't of some powerful enemy will divert him frf)m his piey I have known a Cougar to kill a good-sized Indian pony and its colt, and ⢠\ â â¢i ; \' \ i \ r \ ^-l^ Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that ma
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