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 * Group Members: Mary Grace Easterling and Lucy Campbell**


 * How Will We Work Together: Communicate and make it fair that we are doing the same amount of work!**


 * Research:**

1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics? Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?) Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal

• The Mountain Lion lives in many places. Here are some of the places where they are located. They live in Florida, Western part of North America, Vancouver Island, British Colombia. They are also located in south Alberta, west Wyoming, California, west and south Texas, Louisiana, south Alabama, Tennessee, Peninsular Flordia. The lions are attracted to where deer live, so in most cases they live in the area of deer.

Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal. • The west the Cougar is known as the Mountain Lion. • It is called the Puma in the south west. • In Florida it is called the Panther. • In New England it is called the Catamount.

Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal. o Long lean body o Long black tipped tail o Small head o Thick short fur o Fur can be brown, gray, black, crème colored, or sometimes brick colored. o Has powerful fangs and claws o Great hunter o Powerful leaper o Has black tipped ears o Elusive o Solitary

2. Where and why is your animal endangered? Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats) Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered. Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment.
 * The Mountain Lion is endangered in Canada, Florida, Texas, Louisina, California, Wyoming, Alabama, and Tennessee. The animal is endangered becasue people hunted the Mountain Lions.

Identify the factors, environmental and/or anthropogenic (caused by man) that cause it to be endangered o The Mountain Lion is endangered because it is an animal that humans hunt. People hunt them because Mountain Lions sometimes attacked peoples livestock. mountain Lions also hunt people, and can do severe damage to a person. Governments rewarded anyone who killed a Mountain Lion. Now, in some places goverments do not pay people to kill, them but they will not be breaking the law if they kill them.

Provide statistics and other facts related to its endangerment o Now the population has decreased. Pumas are now protected in many places by laws that limit hunting. In some places pumas are not banned from hunting, but the numbered of pumas hunted is low.

3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved? Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.
 * The zoos that Mountain Lions are held are the Park Zoo, Seatle Washington, Phillidelphia zoo, Phillidelphia, and San Dieago Zoo, San Dieago.

4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done? Locate where research is done on your animal and where efforts are underway to conserve its population (Note: It may be that this is done at the same location(s) you identified in #3) Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation
 * The Pumas are being held in zoos to be protected, and also they are now protected in many places by laws that limit hunting, and some places are banning it for good.

Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conversation. o The people that work at the zoo are also in charge of looking out for the Pumas, and making sure they stay healthy and safe.

Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population.
 * The goverment is doing a huge part in banning and not allowing certin places to hunt Mountain Lions. Zoos are also taking care of them and making sure they are safe and healthy. There are some places we have found that help save the Mountain Lions. A few ones are the Big Cat Rescue, the Mountain Lion Foundation, and the

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media type="youtube" key="cUh9A9xqlSs&hl=en" height="355" width="425" __**Bibliography (All Resources Used)** Websites:__ "Cougar Felis Concolor." __Big Cat Rescue__. 28 Apr. 2008.

"Keep Me Wild." __One World Communications__. 2006. California Department of Fish and Game. 28 Apr. 2008.

"Mountain Lion/Cougar." __Desert USA__. 1996. Digital West Media, Inc. 25 Apr. 2008 [|www.desertusa.com].

"Mountain Lion Foundation." __Mountain Lions__. 23 Apr. 2008 http://www.mountainlion.org/.

"Mountain Lions." __National Geographic__. 1996. 23 Apr. 2008.

__Book Source:__ Stone, Lynn M. __Cougars__.

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"Mountain Lions." __Encyclopedia Britannica__. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2008. 22 Apr. 2008.