Kokanee was acquired September 3, 2002 .  He was born in captivity and was hand raised and for this reason can not be released into the wild. Kokanee will be here at the Muskoka Wildlife Centre for a year to help with the filming of a documentary on wild cats of Ontario and also to be a part of our outreach program.

Cougar (Puma Concolor)

Dining and Dwelling

Cougars feed mainly on large pray items such as deer, moose and elk. They will also feed on coyotes, bobcats, porcupines, beavers, opossums, raccons, skunks, and domestic livestock such as sheep, goats, and young calves.

Cougars are found mainly in forested regions and in the mountainous terrain of the west. They will also take up other habitats such as desert scrubs, chaparral and swamps, but they are rarely found living in agricultural areas and close proximity to humans.

Life and Death

Cougars will breed through out the year. After a gestation period of 90 days a female will give birth to an average of 3 cubs, with extremes of 1 and 6. When the cubs are born they are blind. The cubs leave their mother at 10- 26 months.

That's Amazing

-The cougar has the widest distribution of any mammal in the Western Hemisphere.

-Porcupine is a common prey for the cougar. It flips the porcupine with its paw, stunning it, and then bites into the unprotected underside. It cannot be an easy skill to learn, and young cougars are known to have died from porcupine quill related trauma.

-Man is the #1 predator of the Cougar