By March 5th, 2011, the US Fish and Wildlife Service finished its research in North America concerning the Eastern Cougar.
The conclusion of their research was quite worrying: the Eastern Cougar became extinct.Not even in the present, but more than 60 decades ago. Before that, Eastern Cougars were common mammals: there were large numbers of them living from Canada to South America. However, people started to hunt them in large numbers and now, according to the research, there is none. There are some people who contradict the results and say that they have in fact seen a cougar, but there is no firm evidence.
What will happen to the 'circle of life' if all of the predators are hunted down in the future (just like the Eastern Cougar)? Will it stop, is there a limit?
http://greenanswers.com/news/224556/eastern-cougar-extinct-north-america
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This is piece on the plight of the Eastern Cougar is informative and disheartening, however it seems any sub-species of cougar could also be at risk based on the fact each individual will need a range of 5-25 square miles to sustain itself (U.S Fish and Wildlife Service),and importantly certain sub-species tend to have particular sicknesses which are uncommon to the general species,may refuse to mate with other species even though attempts are being made to save them, and this large cats actually mate once or twice in 3 years which is a long time for an animal which may be endangered.
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http://www.fws.gov/nc-es/mammal/cougar.html
http://laurier.vsb.bc.ca/studentp/RyanY/Cougar.html
http://www.felineworlds.com/cougar-reproduction.html
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