• A cougar can drag a carcass up to 5–10 times its own weight over a considerable distance.
• The puma is a skilled hunter capable of bringing down prey several times its own weight and often returns to a carcass, covering it with leaves.
• The cougar (Puma concolor) can feed on a wide variety of animals, from mice and opossums to coyotes and other cougars, as well as birds, fish, snails, and insects.

The cougar is a predator that hunts deer, moose, and smaller animals, quietly stalking its prey before attacking with a powerful leap, employing ambush tactics to obtain food. The species’ diet includes elk, muskrats, rodents, hares, rabbits, large mammals, and small mammals, with a daily food requirement ranging from 1.8 kilograms to 3.5 kilograms. Young cougars consume milk. The species preys on beavers, true deer, horned deer, hares, peccaries, raccoons, arctomys, mazamas, llamas, moose, and American rabbits. In some cultures the animal is consumed, but it is not considered halal or kosher.