The diet of the mountain lion consists almost entirely of animal matter; but, like the domestic cat, it occasionally eats grasses and other vegetable matter. Deer and javelina are major food items; however, lions have been known to take elk and bighorn sheep as well as a variety of smaller animals.
The Santa Gertrudis breed, the first American breed of cattle developed in the Americas, was done here. It is a cross between a Brahman and a Shorthornâthree-eighths Brahman and five-eighths Shorthorn. It was recognized as a true breed in 1940 by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Schwartze first described patulous eustachian tube in 1864 when he noted a scarred atrophic eardrum moving synchronously with respiration. This condition was first fully described in 1867 by Jago, who had a patulous eustachian tube.