How soon can the cougar respawn?

I play stalker and had a decent run going - 80 days, technical backpack acquired, moose hide satchel made, etc. I started searching for one of the bunkers in Bleak Inlet but ran into a cougar.

Now, I’m not one to tussle with an Aurora cougar, so I slept in the Forlorn Muskeg cave and dealt with it the next day. Bang bang…. cougar dead.

Now I did see on the map a second cougar zone over by the washed out trailers, but that’s far away where I was. The next aurora night was like, 3 days later, so I headed out with my scanner and BAM, hit by a cougar in the exact same place.

I enjoy the extra challenge of an apex predator roaming around, but shouldn’t I get like… a couple days to roam before another one spawns? Or is this just something I should be expecting?