They estimate like 4000ish adult cougars in Colorado. Wow.
Porcupines... so cougars can kill them. They learn to flip them over, and there is a note out there than in one place 80 porcupines went down to 3 in a year due to cougars that figured them out. Apparently some bobcats and fishers (animal like a weasel) do too. Some say coyotes get them from roadkill and eat 'em.
And there are old world and new world porcupines.
Weird how in North America, they don't live in the south/southeast.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fisher_(animal)
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Porcupine
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Porcupine
Picture by Roger Hall apparently.
Their range in the US via wikipedia.
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