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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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to be a trueleopard in miniature. In its native wilds the ocelot seeks its food chiefly amongthe smaller mammalia and birds. THE MOUNTAIN LION OR PUMA* These are not the only names by which the Puma isknown in the United States. He has different local names,such as tiger, cougar, catamount, and panther, or painter,as the backwoodsmen entitle him, and silvery lion. The puma ranges the whole of both the Americas fromthe Straits of Magellan to where the increasing cold in thenorth of Canada blocks his passage. Like many other largeanimals, however, the puma has retired before the advanceof civilization, and in many of the more thickly populatedportions of the United States a straggler, even, is rarely tobe found. All smaller, weak mammals are his prey — deer, sheep,colts, calves, and small quadrupeds generally. When, how-ever, his prey is so large that it cannot all be devoured atone meal, the animal covers it with leaves or buries it inthe earth, returning later to finish his repast.
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