COUGAR. 
This animal, by the agility of it's body, and 
the length of it's legs, BufFon remarks, seems 
calculated to run, and to climb trees, better 
than the jaguar. They are both, he adds, 
equally remarkable for sloth and cowardice, 
when once glutted with prey ; and seldom are 
known to attack men, except when they find 
them asleep. Travellers, who may find it 
necessary to pass the night, or halt, in the 
woods, need no other precaution, to prevent 
their approach, than that of kindling a fire. 
The Cougar delights in the lofty shades of 
the forest, where it hides itself in the covert 
of a thick tree, waiting the approach of some 
animal, chiefly the moose or other deer and, 
as one of these animals passes, drops on it, 
and instantly destroys it. Charlevoix, who 
mentions this property in the Cougar, calU 
it, by mistake, the carcajou. But, though 
deer of different descriptions are the usuai 
prey of the Cougar, it is known even to at- 
tack some of the fiercer animals. Pennant 
mentions, that the Cougar, whose skin is in 
the Museum of the Royal Society, was killed 
just as it had pulled down a wolf. 
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