All "big Cats except Lions and Cheetahs are defined by biologists as Solitary Carninvores who "do not cooperatively raise young, forage, mate or defend resources from competitors or predators".........."Solitary carnivores were thought to interact infrequently".................. "And when interaction occurred, these interactions were thought to be about courtship or territorial disputes".............. We are now getting more and more documentation from the ongoing PANTHERA TETON COUGAR STUDY in Wyoming showing that Pumas(cougars) do interact socially outside of mating encounters............In fact, "a new article just published in Current Zoology states that between May 2012 and March 2015 there were documented 65 Male-Female, 48 Female-Female, and 5 Male-Male interactions among 12 overlapping mountain lions"..............."Sixty percent of the mountain lion interactions occurred over food—a kill made by one of the mountain lions"................. "And contrary to everything we read about mountain lions, kittens were present at 60% of Female-Female and Male-Female interactions at kill sites"........... "There was also recording of three adult pumas feeding together on 5 occasions and as many as 9 pumas at a kill, including youngsters"-----Watch a video when clicking on the link below of a male Puma visiting a Female with kittens---WOW!!!

https://www.google.com/url?
rct=j&sa=t&url=http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/01/solitary-is-not-asocial-social-interactions-among-mountain-lions/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioSNjIxODExNzI5ODYxNDM1NTEwMho0NjkyMGE5NmVmYzExNTg4OmNvbTplbjpVUw&usg=AFQjCNFTTbq7C4LQ1qdCpR_mnc_MC60aWw

CLICK ON LINK ABOVE TO READ FULL ARTICLE AND WATCH MALE/FEMALE AND
KITTEN  PUMA SOCIAL INTERACTION

Solitary Is Not Asocial: Social Interactions Among Mountain Lions

Posted by Mark Elbroch of Panthera in Cat Watch on August 1, 2016

F61 and F96, familial mountain lions followed by

 Panthera’s Teton Cougar Project, engage in play.

 Photograph by Jeff Hogan