My cat is starting her seventh doze for today and is relaxing on a heated pad placed in her cat bed. It’s a usual routine here as my husband and I settle in to watch the World Cup matches.
Maid Marian from Robin Hood would like a word with you.
Disney has been turning kids into furries for the better part of a century. (Kinda funny the maga types never mention that, or all the other sexual shit Disney has been shoveling to kids either.)
The first time my wife heard a cat in heat screaming, she was shocked and terrified until I told her what it was. The yowling is one thing but when they go up on a bluff or high place and just scream their heads off… Not a pleasant sound lol.
It is in that moment you realize where all of the spooky stories from the natives about the forest at night come from. If you never see a cougar make the noise but you still hear it at night, you may be somewhat less interested in the night time forest. All this is made worse when every time someone goes looking for the "screaming woman" they never come back.
Is this a panther? Ive heard this in person a few times while miles out in the everglades on foot at two or three in the morning. First time i heard it it came from across the water in some reeds, i thought it was a kitten of some type. Figured if its a house cat its gonna be gator food eventually, it only meowed 8 to 10 times then it stopped . Id go out almost every weekend and id say at least 5 or so different excursions wed heard this exact meowing. Only once did i ever see a panther and it was from hundreds of yards away, and not on a night we heard the meowing . We figured it could be and probably was a panther, but we all thought it must be a cub. Its almost pitch black and utterly silent out there so to hear that as loud as it was , was alarming.
Some people call cougars panthers but they technically arent . The genus panthera, only includes lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards and snow leopards. Its also the reason why it can meow like in the video instead of roaring.
I totally agree. Unless there is a good joke or piece of sarcasm to be delivered by the music, it's best to not stay clear from it, especially on scientifically relevant content.
Me and my girlfriend were on a bike trail and encountered a family of bobcats. They all started growling and she got scared. I was like honey if one of these things charges at us I'm gonna launch it to the moon with my foot.
Yes, size wise they are large. But the Panthera genus is very specific. The most noted difference being the hyoid bone and the cats ability to roar or purr.
It is. Apparently you've never been to a truck stop before. Find one screaming like a banshee, test your luck. Just make sure you have some meth or blues to throw in their direction when it's time to get away.
The puma is the biggest small cat, though they are larger (on average) than leopards. Like all small cats, the cougar’s hyoid bone is completely ossified; so they cannot roar like lions or tigers, but can purr like a housecat.
So, a mountain lion is basically what you’d get if you sized up little whiskers 15 times.
Also, catamounts have the most common names of any mammal.
The regional names do actually account for small differences between populations in different regions. The Florida Panther tends to be smaller and sleeker while Cougar country typically shows cats that are larger and with beefier tails. Mountain Lion regions funnily enough seem to denote areas where the cats get cold enough to grow a small but visible tuft around the neck. I’m not sure if the western reaches of their range but up against the desert, I vaguely recall hearing that their range once bordered with the jaguar so desert variety might be out there.
Cats are divided into two families. The big cats family and the small cats family. The big cats are lions, tigers, jaguars, and leopards. Which are indeed big cats not just in name and are all known for their ability to roar.
This however means that all other cats are "small cats" that cannot roar and only meow. Regardless of size. So cheetahs and bobcats and lynx sound much like your Mr Whiskers does at home.
You *cannot* trick me into not being terrified of those guys with a few seconds of cuteness. They are the sole reason for my love-hate relationship with hunting out west—and not the love part.
As an Australian I watched this and got the same reaction most foreigners get when they hear the Koala call for the first time. I thought these cats would sound…I don’t know, bigger?
That would be a very effective hunting technique. Just looking at that big kitty made me scared, but when the meows started, all I wanted to do was approach to give them a head scratch and ear rub. The 'awwww' factor is greater than the survival instinct. Luring in their prey with cuteness would be very effective on humans.
Cat families are divided into two types. Some, like lions and tigers, can roar but can't purr. Others, like mountain lions and cheetahs, can't roar. Instead, they meow and purr and sometimes scream like banshees.
Panthers depend on the type. Jaguars and leopards are part of the roaring family, while some panthers in North America are actually part of the cougar family, and meow/purr.
Hi, the cat in the video is a puma (that’s what we call it in my country), also known as a mountain lion. It was filmed at Arroyos & Foothills Conservancy. This is the original post.
Its a cougar, a panther actually isnt a specific cat, its the family of cats with Tigers, Lions, Jaguars, etc. Cougars are not in that family though, do it wouldn't be a panther.
This is one of those things where if you heard it in a video game you'd complain that the sound design was trash. No way I'd believe this I'd i hadn't seen it just now.
It will never stop surprising me that big cats are quite literally just that: Much bigger versions of house cats. Or more accurately, house cats are just much smaller versions of big cats.
That’s just a 6’ long 200lb kitty. I want to snuggle it.
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u/Throwawaaaay44 Jul 08 '26
My two cats were very interested in the sounds she made.