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Cougar size: How big do they get?

How big does a Cougar get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:

A grown Cougar (Puma concolor) reaches an average size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″).

When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 20 years, they grow from 410 grams (0.9 lbs) to 53.93 kg (118.89 lbs). A Cougar has 2 babies at once. The Cougar (genus: Puma) is a member of the family Felidae.

As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.

The average adult size of a Cougar is (4' 8

The cougar (Puma concolor) is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae. It is native to the Americas. Its range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America, and is the widest of any large wild terrestrial mammal in the Western Hemisphere. It is an adaptable, generalist species, occurring in most American habitat types.Due to its wide range, it has many names including puma, mountain lion, red tiger, and catamount.It is the second-heaviest cat in the New World after the jaguar. Secretive and largely solitary by nature, the cougar is properly considered both nocturnal and crepuscular, although daytime sightings do occur. The cougar is more closely related to smaller felines, including the domestic cat, than to any species of subfamily Pantherinae, of which only the jaguar is extant in the Americas.The cougar is an ambush predator that pursues a wide variety of prey. Primary food sources are ungulates, particularly deer. It also hunts species as small as insects and rodents. This cat prefers habitats with dense underbrush and rocky areas for stalking, but can also live in open areas. The cougar is territorial and survives at low population densities. Individual territory sizes depend on terrain, vegetation, and abundance of prey. While large, it is not always the apex predator in its range, yielding prey it has killed to jaguars, American black bears and grizzly bears, American alligators (Florida Panther predation mainly), and to groups of gray wolves. It is reclusive and mostly avoids people. Fatal attacks on humans are rare, but have recently been increasing in North America as more people enter cougar territories, and build developments such as farms in their established territory.Intensive hunting following European colonization of the Americas and the ongoing human development into cougar habitat has caused populations to drop in most parts of its historical range. In particular, the North American cougar is considered to have been mostly extirpated in eastern North America in the beginning of the 20th century, except for the isolated Florida panther subpopulation.

Animals of the same family as a Cougar

We found other animals of the Felidae family:

Animals with the same size as a Cougar

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cougar:

Animals with the same litter size as a Cougar

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Cougar:

Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cougar

Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cougar:

Animals with the same weight as a Cougar

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Puma concolor: