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Cougars are also known as pumas or mountainlions. They are large wild cats that have the largest range of habitat. They live inbetween the Yukon Territory and the Andes of Soth America.
They got their name ''mountainlions'' beacause they look like the female African lion, they are often mistaken for other large wild cats. Cougars usualy have 3 to 4 kits a year.
There have been constant complaints that cougars have attacked and killed live stock.
There have been some cougar attackes but they rarely occur.
In 2001 cougars where almost hunted to extinction beacause people hunted them when they came on their land, but now it is illegal to shoot a cougar unless it harms you or does damage to your livestock.
There have been 250 cougar sightings in the Yukon in the last 60 years.
Cougars came to the Yukon beacuse of deer population.
In 2004 two men where biking in cougar territory in the US and one was killed and the other was in hospital for 3 months. There have been some cougar attacks in theYukon.
If you are within 2 to 4 meters of a cougar you should look as big as possible and never look weak or scared, beacause it will attack immediataly.
You can tell cougar tracks from other cats beacause the tail leaves marks in the snow. In the Summer you can recognize a cougar track froma Lynx', for example, by its size. The cougar's being a little bigger. Both being very round.
by: Nicola
Posted by 24984 on 5/2/07; 11:17:57 AM
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Afghanistan is located in beetween th Midlel East and Asia.
There are many ancient ruins beacuse they say that the first people in the world lived in Afghanistan.
There is the ''city of sights'', people had to climb a lage cliff to get to it, but now it is just ruins, and is huge!
There are also many other ruins and some are just huge piles of stones and are very big.
They are also trying to get rid of land mines, there is an estimate of 5 to 7 million land mines in Afghanistan and in 2001 600 to 700 people were killed a month beacause of land mines, now only 80 to 100 are killed a month but I think it is still too many!
There is approximately 28,853,000 people in afghanistan but many have left as refugees. Afghanistan is made up of deserts, forests, lakes and montains, wich many farmers have farmed land.
Many farmers are now growing poppies even though it is illegal, it is illegal beacause poppies are so easy to grow because they need very little water and they make illegal drugs and legal drugs, then the farmers sell them to the gouverment and the gouverment sells them to other contries.
There is less food gowing around beacause of this.
Today other countries and the governement of Afghanistan are trying to turn their poppy fileds into food crops.
When the taliben were in power all women lost their rights, they could not work, they could not go to shool, they could not show their faces and they were forced to wear a burka, witch is a net that covers their face and body, There were several punishments given to whoever disobeyed the taliban. There are many animals in Afghanistan, such as snow leopards, it is an endangered specie and there are only 100 to 200 left in Afghaistan, they are very difficult to count because they live high in the montains and hide from people.
Maquas are a type of monkey, some people keep maquaus as pets!
Like snow leopards, the morco polo sheep in Afghanistan are endangered because thay are hunted for their horns wich can grow up to 5.3 cm long and are also hunted for their white fur.
Afghanistan is also home to the siberian tiger, it eats enough meat to fill 600 humbergers each day! the sibirian tiger is also the largest member of the cat family, not the lion.
I think Afghanistan has many interesting animals and I hope they do not become extinct.
by: Nicola
Posted by 24984 on 1/18/07; 1:30:52 PM
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There are lots of animals in the Yukon. There are grizzly bears and black bears, they are mammals and usually have one to four cubs.There are also birds like eagles, there are golden eagles and bald eagles. Most eagles will kill by hitting their pray with their claws so hard that it brakes their spine and kills them.There are other birds like loons, they are birds that are black and have white dots on their backs.Eagles mostly eat : grouse, squirrels, rabbits, hares and other small animals. In the Yukon there is The Porcupine caribou herd that comes through every year. They are mammals and have their babies in the U. S. A. The Porcupine caribou herd travels over 1000 km. every year to have their babies. Caribou are large mammals that have brown fur but they have a white on there stomatch and tail and have fuzz on there antlers. Somme people want to drill for oil where the caribou are having there babies , and the govrment says that the oil is worth 100,000,000 $! In the Yukon ther are lots of mammals with antlers such ; moose, moose are mammals that are big and as tall as 3 meters high and 2 meters wide.I have seen a moose in the Yukon, it was a male moose and it hade big antlars. In the Yukon there are other animals there are mountain goats too. Mouatain goats are strong mammals with horns and have white all over there bodys , even on there legs. There are big cats too, there are lynx and kougers,
kougers have paw prints as big as an avredg adelt's hand!
Lnyx have a few hiars on the top of there ears, they have brown fur all over there bodys and have long wiskers.There are wolfs and wolverines in the Yukon, artic wolfs and there fur never changes coulor and it is always wite. Wolverines are smaller and have brown fur,wolverines are very very dangerous .
Threre are lots of small rodents in the Yukon such as skwirls, martens, growned squirrels, and all of them are brown and are as big as an advredg adult hand.
I have seen many of the animals that I named!
I like all the animals in the Yukon!
by:Nicola
Posted by 24984 on 12/1/06; 11:34:13 AM
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