The puma holds the record for being the cat found at the highest elevation an individual was seen at 5'800m in the andes .

Pumas are able to live in a wide variety of habitats , including forests , prairies , deserts and rocky mountainsides.

The puma is nocturnal,and is also likely to be active at dawn.

The puma is a carnivore(meat eater)and cannot survive on anything other than meat. It will prey on most animals,large and small, from insectes to moose.

Both male and female pumas are territorial . The territory of a male puma is subsiantially larger than that of a female.