Mountain Lion

Mountain lions are the most widely distributed wild cat in the Americas, historically ranging from Canada down to the southern tip of South America, though populations were wiped out across much of the eastern range in North America by the 20th century. Known just as often as cougar, puma, panther, or catamount, it's a large, uniformly tawny to golden-brown cat with a long, black-tipped tail making up roughly a third of its total body length — the clearest way to tell it apart from the much smaller bobcat or lynx. Mountain lions prey mainly on deer and other hoofed mammals, typically killing with a bite to the neck or skull, and they hunt alone, elusive and solitary across rugged, remote terrain.