In addition to their large size there are several distinguishing features of cougars that can help in positively. The photo on the left is an 8 month old female and the right side is an adult male.
Mountain Lion Bryce Canyon National Park U S National
Mountain lion weight and height. Weight can vary greatly between 75 and 250 pounds. Males 3 to 65 feet females 3 to 55 feet weight. 75 to 110 pounds. Notice the black spot of hair on the adult male it surrounds the penis sheath only males have this black spot kittens are harder to differentiate but follow a similar pattern. They are powerfully built and the hind legs are larger than the front. They have a long body with a small head short face and a long neck and tail.
Female is somewhat smaller at 5 7 feet in length and weighing average height is 3 feet. The length of a male mountain lion may exceed 8 feet from nose typically weighing 110 to 180 pounds. 27 to 31 inches at the shoulder. The size of the mountain lion is frequently overestimated. The heftiest weight reported for a male lion is approximately 600 pounds almost 200 pounds more than the average. Here are two photos of a cougars backside.
Mountain lion facts height. 115 to 160 pounds adult male. Generally though males weigh between 115 and 220 pounds 52 and 100 kilograms and females weigh between 64 and 141 pounds 29 and 64 kilograms. Mountain lions usually weigh between 75 175 pounds. Male mountain lions generally weigh about 115 to 220 pounds 53 to 100 kilograms. Males 125 to 220 pounds females 75 to 140 pounds habitat.
They vary in length from 59 108 inches with a tail length of 21 36 inches and height from 23 28 inches at the shoulder. Bobcats are sometimes mistaken for mountain lions but bobcats are much smaller have spots and short tails. The cat was killed in the chaco region of paraguay in 1958. 18 to 24 feet length. The tail of the mountain lion is about one third the entire length of the body. A giant mountain lion reported in sports afield hunting annual weighed 170 kg 375 pounds.
The average height of the siberian tiger is slightly under 4 feet at the shoulders. Adult males weight about 40 60 more than females. Large as some lions are siberian tigers a panthera tigris subspecies grow to more than 930 pounds in weight in extreme cases. Usually remote 25 to 100 square miles home range in areas of forest swamp grassland desert and scrubs with caves or groups of rocks. Mountain lions vary hugely in average body size depending on geographic locationtheir size is smallest closer to the equator and largest closer to the poles. These large cats as adults can be 30 inches in height at the shoulder and approximately 8 feet long from nose to tail.