Mountain Lions prefer to live in areas of rugged mountains and forests, but will adapt to areas of rolling hills with little cover and the desert. A home range for an adult male lion can be over 100 square miles. Females travel a smaller range of 20 to 60 square miles.
A garrotte is a weapon, usually a handheld ligature of chain, rope, scarf, wire or fishing line used to strangle a person. Garrotte is normal British English spelling, with single 'r' as an alternate. Garrote with a single 't' is US English spelling. A Spanish version is garrote vil.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various. Our friend Blocque is garroted, and robbed of his 'honest earnings,' at one fell swoop by a footpad! Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee and his Paladins John Esten Cooke. Most of them was garroted, and a few was condemned to work on the roads for life.