Why this animal has so many names, where its found, and how it hunts dinner. Mountain lions are solitary cats, except during breeding and when a mother has cubs. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have any contact with one another. They live in areas called home ranges, which vary in size from 30 to 125 square miles 78 to 324 square hectares. These ranges overlap, so the cats share some parts. The home ranges of the males tend to be the largest, and they overlap the smaller ranges of several females. The cats may actually see each other once in awhile, but mostly they leave messages for each other: feces, urine, scratched logs, and marks they scrape out in the dirt or snow.

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