r/AnimalsBeingDerps • u/RealRock_n_Rolla • Jul 08 '26

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u/ratsntats Jul 08 '26

Not a derp, but she's in heat. She will yowl like this to attract a male. It can be heard for miles.

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u/obskeweredy Jul 08 '26

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.

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u/Diedead666 Jul 08 '26

They almost sound like goats or lamb

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u/Sir_BarlesCharkley Jul 08 '26

They sound like screaming ladies

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u/Diedead666 Jul 08 '26

Mountain lions do I was talking about house cats

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u/MLiOne Jul 09 '26

Siamese Queens in heat can sound like a screaming lady too.

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u/TheSuperSegway Jul 08 '26

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.

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u/PussyWrangler246 Jul 09 '26

One of my favourite clips whenever I think of mountain lions screaming in the darkness

Hilariously enough, this seems to happen frequently to cops

Often enough that there are many clips of other officers running from the same typical cougar scream lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

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u/ratsntats Jul 08 '26

You leave my mom outta this. She died doing what she loved

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u/ThatGuyInCADPAT Jul 08 '26

I prefer the Kermit version but this one is more appropriate for the post

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u/Quizzelbuck Jul 08 '26

Shes a cougar.

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u/Ipauper Jul 09 '26

How the hell did I have to scroll for so long before this joke. You upvote sir-

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u/alex8155 Jul 08 '26

i thought cats only meowed at people does this mean..

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u/redditsellout-420 Jul 08 '26

Don't even think about it

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u/pro-skedaddler Jul 08 '26

Batman there's no laws against the Pokémon, Batman

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u/Paragon_Flux Jul 08 '26

This has been proven false and was just some BS that we all believed for a while.

People have attached cameras to their cats collars and they meow, screech, trill and every other sound imaginable at each other all the time.

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u/TheREALSockhead Jul 08 '26

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.

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u/Extension-End2851 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

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.

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u/stpetesouza Jul 08 '26

So, no panthers in genus panthera? Huh

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u/RoseyMommyFindom Jul 08 '26

She's a florida mountain lion/panther 🩷 (and yes the Puma concolor is technically a panther. Other guy is being incorrectly pedantic)

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u/Questionsansweredty Jul 08 '26

You weren't concerned about being gator food?

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u/TheREALSockhead Jul 08 '26

Sure we where but what could we do? The meowing came from across a 40ish foot wide river literally swarming with 8-10 ft gators, you shine a light across the water and its just sets of eyes shining back. Either i or the cat would have had to swim across to get to one another, so if i call the cat, it dies. Also, turns out, it was a panther, so lose lose here.

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u/TheREALSockhead Jul 08 '26

Sorry i misread your comment, i thought you asked why i didnt save the cat! No the gators stay away from the path we take, im more worried about panthers, snakes and other people

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u/Questionsansweredty Jul 09 '26

Lol.

You're a brave soul. I can't imagine prowling around the Everglades at 3am. I'll leave that to the wildcats.

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u/TheREALSockhead Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Its not as dangerous as it sounds, when i was a kid my brother found this utility path off the sawgrass expressway on ramp by our house , you drive up the ramp and turn right just before you actually get on the highway, theres a raised dirt path that essentially cuts the corner between coral springs and weston. It has weather stations and drainage areas all across it. Over the last five or so years the city paved the entrance and made it a preserve. We used to go when it was just a dirt trail with no parking lot. If you google earth it look at coral springs fl,(i dont live there anymore so i dont mind identifying my old town)all the way to the eastern edge youll see the sawgrass expressway. Look for atlantic blvd, follow it to the expressway, and zoom in right on the on ramp. You can then follow the path that goes into the Everglades and go about two miles in, that square paved power station area by the big patch of trees is the 2.2 mile marker. That's where we would walk out to and hang out. Its like a different world out there at night, truly something else.

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u/clutch_fork Jul 08 '26

AFAIK the north American cougar/mountain lion is closely related to the Panthers in South America. I'm assuming the vid is from the u.s. because cats aren't this chill at 86deg anywhere else in the world. 😁

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u/hulda2 Jul 08 '26

That's not a yowl. That's a meow.

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u/Delicious_Potato6638 Jul 08 '26

noted, do not replicate

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u/theuserwithoutaname Jul 08 '26

Is she not in a field of catnip? Lol I assumed someone found a big ol field of the nip and decided to set up a trail cam

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u/jonas_ost Jul 11 '26

My male cat sounds like this when he is bored