Pumas eat a variety of foods but rely heavily on deer where available. It will also feed on wild sheep, elk, rabbits, beaver, raccoons, grouse, and occasionally livestock. It climbs well, is an excellent jumper, and often drops from limbs onto its prey. Generally, cougars are solitary. If tracks show two or more cougars travelling together, it probably indicates a female with kittens.
Cougars have four toes with three distinct lobes present at the base of the pad.
Claws are retractable, so they usually do not leave imprints. Litters are born usually 2 years apart. Its mating call is a harsh scream. During a 14-day period of mating a male and female will break their normally solitary habits to hunt together and sleep next to each other. About 3 months later mom gives birth to a litter of one to five young.