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 * Members: Sydney and Marie**
 * How Will We Work Together:**

**1. Where does your animal live, and what are its characteristics? Locate your animal’s habitat (Where does it live? Does it migrate?)** Mountain lions onced roamed a large part of the new world, from northern Canada to southern tip of southern America. Along the Missouri River and all around Argentina. Include all subspecies or varieties of your animal there are no subspecies or varieties of the mountion lion Mountian lions tails are about half the size of their body, the tail is usually darker than the rest of the body,the coat is a solid color,adult mountian lions are don't have stripes or spots,the throat and chest are often white, the mountian lion females are shorter than the males,they can weigh up to 200 pounds, mountain lions don't roar, they are 20 or 30 times larger than a regular cat, they can also have up to 6 cubs at a time. Locate where it is endangered (might not be endangered in all its habitats)** Mountian lions are endangered mostly in South Dakota and in the west, but not California. People are taking a lot of wildlife areas and making the area houses, kicking all the wildlife out of their habitats. The government is also paying people to kill mountian lions because they are killing their livestock.
 * Research:**
 * Identify at least 10 characteristics that will give an in-depth, accurate description of your animal**
 * 2. Where and why is your animal endangered?
 * 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**

Locate at least two zoos and/or conservation centers where the animal is held.** San Diego, Denver, Fort Worth Zoo are all keeping the mountian lions.
 * 3. Where is your animal in captivity and/or conserved?

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)** People and groups that are helping out mountain lions are the Cougar Foundation, Mountain Foundation,and the Florida Panther Society.Some cities are having people not kill as many mountain lions. Identify the experts, leaders, and/or groups guiding the conservation Colorado Spring's town leaders are doing alot to help mountain lions restore alot of the population.
 * 4. What is being done to restore your animal’s populations? Where is it being done?


 * Outline any research and efforts to conserve the population**

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 * Photos**

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7326810@N08/2112659587/sizes/s/

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ezf8wX6D0Ms Baby Mountain lion
 * Videos

Bibliography (All Resources Used) http://www.cougarfund.org/board.php http://www.sandiegozoo.org/ https://secure.worldwildlife.org/forms/acdev/egCenter_1.cfm?reg=14 http://www.mountainlion.org/ http://www.fortworthzoo.com/visit/texaswild.html http://www.mountainlion.org/partners.asp http://www.nwf.org**