It has a small head compared to the jaguar, and its bite is much less dangerous.

Hence, as compared to its larger and bolder relative, it places more trust in its claws and less in its teeth.
Though the cougar prefers woodland, it is not necessarily a beast of the dense forests only; for it is found in all the plains country, living in the scanty timber belts which fringe the streams, or among the patches of brush in the Bad Lands.

The persecution of hunters however always tends to drive it into the most thickly wooded and broken fastnesses of the mountains.

The she has from one to three kittens, brought forth in a cave or a secluded lair, under a dead log or in very thick brush.

It is said that the old he's kill the small male kittens when they get a chance.