Communication Cougars have a wide range of vocal sounds. This sound is made by a female cougar in heat. Hunting and Food Cougars are active day and night time predators. They are built to climb trees, mountains, and sprint and ambush their prey. The puma will eat anything within its range.
Deer make up the majority of a cougar's diet.
Pumas will sometimes take livestock when their own natural prey is sparse. Doing so usually results in the death of the cat, due to farm animals' large hoofs and horns. The cougars are very stealthy, and their prey has no idea that it is being stalked until it is too late. Unfortunately, this sometimes includes people. Some humans who enjoy a walk through the woods will not hear a thing, then all of a sudden have a two hundred pound cat sinking its fangs into the back of their head.