Country Artist Figure "Mountain Lion Cub"

Country Artist Figure "Mountain Lion Cub" - It was a life-long love of nature and a definite flair for experimenting that led to the creation of Country Artist . In 1978, at it's beginning, Country Artist was a typical cottage industry with materials for those first products literally mixed on the kitchen table in a small cottage in Tanworth-In-Arden England. Today Country Artist are still designed in England, and with shipments to seventeen countries around the globe these beautiful works of art are now enjoyed the world over. Stone resin construction. Make sure you see the entire animal line we carry, measuring between 2 1/2" and 3" tall for a fraction of the price you will find elsewhere. The cougar (Puma concolor), also known as the puma or mountain lion, is a large, solitary cat found in the Americas. It has a vast range, from Yukon in Canada to the southern Andes of South America. Its primary food is deer but it hunts a range of prey, from insects, mice and rabbits to domestic cats and dogs, alpaca, livestock, and even bighorn sheep and elk. In the Rocky Mountains it sometimes preys on mature cattle and horses. It is a secretive cat that usually avoids people; it will attack humans, though rarely.[2]Due to overhunting and continual human development of cougar habitat, populations have dropped in many parts of its historical range, although recent conservation efforts have allowed numbers to improve in some areas. However, cougar hunting is still common in the United States, and is permitted in every state from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean with the exception of California. The cougar is typically hunted with dogs that chase the animal until it climbs a tree, whereupon the hunters shoot it. State agency records show that over 30, 000 cougars were killed for sport between 1996 and 2006, one of the highest totals for any decade on record.[citation needed]In the English language the cougar has over 40 different names. Cougars are known by many regional names, including panther, catamount, painter, American lion, Mexican lion, Florida panther, silver lion, red lion, red panther, red tiger, brown tiger, deer tiger, ghost cat, mountain screamer, Indian devil, sneak cat, king cat, and painted cat. The word puma comes from the Quechua language. In Brazil it is also known as the suçuarana, from the Tupi language, but also has other names.In North America, particularly the United States, "panther" by itself refers to a cougar when the context implies a local species. In South America,