Cubs Florida Panthers Animal

Female panthers with cubs build dens for their litters in an equally wide variety of habitats favoring dense scrub but also using grassland and marshland.

Cubs florida panthers animal. Panthers usually give birth in a safe den. I was on my way to. An adult florida panther needs to eat about 35 50 deer sized animals each year although females with cubs may need twice that amount. By the time they are a few months old panther cubs begin to accompany her in search of prey and often won t leave her until they are nearly 2 years old and have established a territory for themselves.

Apr 1 2012 explore catsultations s board panthers followed by 196 people on pinterest. However they also hunt smaller animals such as wild hogs rabbits birds and raccoons procyon lotor and larger ones such as the american alligator alligator mississippiensis. Florida panthers are usually found in pinelands hardwood hammocks and mix swamp forests. A florida panther and her cub are captured by one of carlton ward s camera traps in audubon s corkscrew swamp sanctuary a few weeks after ward saw the panther face to face.

The male plays no part in the raising of panther cubs which stay with their mother for almost 2 years. One of 30 cougar subspecies the florida panther is an endangered species. Florida panther by dave wright. Males weigh up to 130 pounds.

Panthers live in cypress swamps and pine and hardwood hammock forests. While extraordinarily beautiful lucy is one of the few of her kind left in the world and is a great representation of her species. The florida panther has been at the center of a controversy over the science used to manage the species. Panthers are tawny brown on the back and pale gray underneath with white flecks on the head neck and shoulder.

The florida panther is an endangered subspecies of cougar puma concolor that lives in forests and swamps of southern florida in the united states. Florida has some of the most beautiful wildlife and we proud to be able to showcase that beauty. Besides white tailed deer florida panthers may eat rabbits wild hogs birds armadillos rats carrion and grass. Perhaps one of the most beautiful is our resident florida panther calusa or lucy for short.

Panthers are pregnant for 3 months the gestation period for a female panther is around 3 months and results in a litter of 2 4 cubs being born.