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Brigandier said:
They usually are, this one is definitely big but I'd wager its winter coat makes it look larger.
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Cougars are the fourth largest cat and are generally the same size as the leopard, but smaller than jaguars (which are f-ing huge). 220 lbs is a large cougar (about as large as they come).
 
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skyking said:
http://rosslandtelegraph.com/news/g...rs-harrowing-tale-straight-out-kootenays-9546

I googled 'castlegar bc big cougar shot'
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nice find. I tried castlegar cougar...and got too many links to follow.

Looks like it's true. I'm very surprised that the cat only weighs in at 160 lbs. I can only imagine how fucking huge a 250 lb. cougar would be. (According to the National Park service, 276 lbs is the largest ever recorded) <brix would be shat upon sighting of such a large cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, painter, and other names...

Didja know....the cougar (puma concolor) is considered a small cat?

Puma concolor is the largest of the 'small cats' and is not included with the 'big cats' because of its inability to roar. Mountain lions make little noise in the woods. They make vocalizations, but they are more similar to the sounds domestic cats make, such as purrs, chirps, whistles, hisses, and growls.
 
160 pounds of pure muscle. At Northwest Trek Wildlife Park ( about a 15 minute drive from me) they have a few in a large enclosure. One of them climbed up into a tree about 40' and then jumped down from there at an angle, some people witnessed it. Talk about game over!
 
skyking said:
160 pounds of pure muscle. At Northwest Trek Wildlife Park ( about a 15 minute drive from me) they have a few in a large enclosure. One of them climbed up into a tree about 40' and then jumped down from there at an angle, some people witnessed it. Talk about game over!
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This is why it makes me nervous to go fishing in the back woods. What could be tastier than a human with some trout on his back?
 
Murloc said:
I thought they were as big as dogs, not look like tigers.
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Small tigers, like the Sumatran, are around 200lbs for females and 300lbs for males. The other species get much larger. Still, the average male cougar (more like 140lbs) is larger and more powerful than the majority of large breed dogs, as mentioned earlier.

When we had to knock out our tigers for vet checkups we'd get to pet them. It's just awe inspiring the sheer size and power up close and personal. Their fur and paw-pads (at least in a Zoo environment) are just as soft as house cats.
 
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BoomerD said:
nice find. I tried castlegar cougar...and got too many links to follow.

Looks like it's true. I'm very surprised that the cat only weighs in at 160 lbs. I can only imagine how fucking huge a 250 lb. cougar would be. (According to the National Park service, 276 lbs is the largest ever recorded) <brix would be shat upon sighting of such a large cougar, puma, mountain lion, catamount, painter, and other names...

Didja know....the cougar (puma concolor) is considered a small cat?

Puma concolor is the largest of the 'small cats' and is not included with the 'big cats' because of its inability to roar. Mountain lions make little noise in the woods. They make vocalizations, but they are more similar to the sounds domestic cats make, such as purrs, chirps, whistles, hisses, and growls.
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IIRC, "big cats" (as a classification) don't have retractable claws, but cougars do.

Lions, tigers, etc do not have retractable claws.
 
I've seen what I thought were sizeable cougars over the years...about the size of a german shepard...they'd be midgets compared to that one.
 
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