Sure glad cougars are solitary animals.

[ASHQUACK]

According to some of the information that the "managers" put out cougars are considered a solitary animal and don't hunt in packs. This trail camera picture says otherwise.

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How else would a mother cougar teach her cubs how to hunt? I don't think anyone has ever said females don't hunt with their cubs.

[firepin]

I had 3 come into a clearing during elk, all 3 were same size. Only 2 left. The one I got was a female, probably 110 pounds.

[pd]

@firepin

Unless that is a baby gun....that cat is enormous.

[dreadi]

Definitely never happens.





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[pianoman9701]

Cubs will stay with their mother for up to two years until she kicks them out. After that, the juveniles will often stay together for a bit. Adult Toms don't tolerate other Toms, females, or juveniles, unless the female is in heat. @bearpaw Maybe Dale will chime in.

[Boss .300 winmag]

https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/nature/

Scroll down to episode 2


Watched this the other day, pretty interesting.

[firepin]

Probably not the correct way but we stretched her after skinning and measured 7'7" nose to tail

[dilleytech]

Never heard anyone say a mother cougar kicks out her young the second they are born. Mom and kids traveling together is normal.

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Definitely never happens.





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Looks to me like a big bobcat and a cougar in these pics. Must have gotten the DEI memo from management.

[bearpaw]

Cubs will stay with their mother for up to two years until she kicks them out. After that, the juveniles will often stay together for a bit. Adult Toms don't tolerate other Toms, females, or juveniles, unless the female is in heat. @bearpaw Maybe Dale will chime in.

In my experiences lions are generally solitary animals except for females with kittens, they usually hang together for 1 1/2 years or more, or when lions are mating, they will hang together for a week or so.  Like with anything there are always some exceptions. For example I once found where two adult females and three kittens were traveling together, and a 6th track, a tom, was on the same travel route, I don't know for sure if he was following them or traveling with them, I think more likely following them. None of the tracks were more than a couple hours old, it was snowing and there was very little snow in any of their tracks.

[shootnrun]

Momma with kittens is the answer. Saw 3 in one drainage last year. Killed the largest, which was a 1yr old tom according to dfw aging. But no doubt in my mind it was ultimately a trio of mom with kittens that hadn't flown the cool yet

[Okanagan]

Cubs will stay with their mother for up to two years until she kicks them out. After that, the juveniles will often stay together for a bit. Adult Toms don't tolerate other Toms, females, or juveniles, unless the female is in heat. @bearpaw Maybe Dale will chime in.

Yep, momma with grown cubs.  I tracked a trio in fresh snow where all three had the same size adult tracks.  After tracking them for 300 yards, I finally noticed that one of them walked a fairly straight route, and the other two consistently swerved back and forth across the straight one's tracks, veering to a stump on one side, back across to check a log, etc.  It was a momma and two still curious grown cubs, all with tracks the same size.
        Also, it appears that two of the cats in the pic have juvenile bars and spots on the inside of their legs.

[Okanagan]

Cougars seem to generally operate solo except when mating or raising young-- or whenever they decide to get together    Nobody has figured out all of the behaviors of this big cat.

Twice I have tracked a pair of cougars (apparently a courting/mating pair) with a third smallish track following or shadowing them, maybe 50 yards to one side.  In another case the smaller cat showed up at least a half day later over the earlier pair's tracks around a kill.  I surmise that the smaller cat was a grown cub kicked out by its mother when she took up with a male to mate.  The youngster was following his mother, maybe hoping she would take him back, but he was afraid of the male.  Pure guess.

Several times we have found a deer kill being eaten by a pair of adult lions.  I assume a mating pair.  And one strange puzzle was when a cougar with the largest track I've ever seen killed and ate a buck in a basin.  Over the next four days, five different cougars came to the edge or down into that basin, but none joined the big one.  My strong assumption is that somehow the big one was calling to other cougars.  Maybe he was calling for a mate. 

[mountainman]

Had a friend catch 8 in one photo in 2011. It happens