What do you call this cat?

[Ike85123]

Ive always called it a lion. Our high school is the cougars.
Southwest Arizona

 

[Newboomer]

Cougar/ mountain lion in Nevada along with some expletives from ranchers.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

1. Puma 2. NY

@MS 9x56
I would call it mountain lion and I'm Australian
Bob

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

Mountain Lion
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cougar
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puma
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this completes today’s lesson

@Bullthrower338.
I didn't need the lesson mate but appreciate the simplicity of your lesson and personally feel you are correct.
We don't have mountain loins in Australia but have plenty of cougars. These can get pretty vicious at times especially with each other when being stalked by toy boys in pumas in their natural environment (bars). The higher quality cougar much prefer to be stalked by toy boys in nike as they appear to make better financial partners for mating purposes.
Bob

 

[Biddleman]

Mountain lion
Pennsylvania

 

[Chickenfarmers]

That's a Kamala Cougar.

 

[cpr0312]

They are used interchangeably, mountain lion or cougar.

North Carolina

 

[Jfet]

Felix concolor my high school biology class.

As I was growing up, my grandmother would tell the story of being chased by a “painter” as a little girl in Alabama. I never understood why there was a “painter any where near her house because they were to poor to have paint on their house. It was years later that I realized that her soft southern accent was turning panther into painter.

 

[Ridgewalker]

Our DOW regulations and licenses call them mountain lions.
Colorado

Me, I call them beautiful and exciting when you see them in the wild! Just got my 2021 license to hunt them starting the month of April. Another year I will make some trips to the mountains to try to call one in. One of my goals before I get too old and can no longer keep the old man out.

 

[Neil Molendyk]

1. Cougar or mountain lion
2. Alberta, Canada

 

[Ike85123]

Our DOW regulations and licenses call them mountain lions.
Colorado

Me, I call them beautiful and exciting when you see them in the wild! Just got my 2021 license to hunt them starting the month of April. Another year I will make some trips to the mountains to try to call one in. One of my goals before I get too old and can no longer keep the old man out.

I like calling them in if its hot outside and i can sit in the arizona shade. Lol
But if its cooler, i like to track them. I just find fresh tracks and follow them for about 1/2 a mile, then turn around and go back. I always catch them trying to circle around me.
When I was young, we saw a jaguar every now and then. That was really exciting. Havent seen or heard abput one in my area since like 1990 or so. But we still have plenty of lions and bobcats out here.

 

[Buffalo1]

Panther, if in Mississippi. And yes I have seen one in MS, even though the MS Game and Fish denies they exist in the state.

 

[WebleyGreene455]

1. Mountain lion and/or kitty.

2. From GA.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Cougars
Allegedly there extinct in eastern Canada but enough sightings tracks an photos turn up every year to argue the point.

I’m in Nova Scotia.

 

[Charles de Ribeau]

I'm in Colorado and only know them as "mountain lion" but another name that I've seen in print is catamount (according to Webster Dictionary - short for cat-a-mountain). Here is mine - 2016 near Meeker, CO. It was a big tom - 210 lbs!!!

 

[Muskox]

Every time I hear the word "Cougar", I think of girls I used to take home from the bar when I was in my 20's and 30's. Generally they were brunettes.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

 

[fourfive8]

Mountain West US. I've always used mountain lion. However cougar is also common.

In addition to mountain lion and cougar, have heard other names used including:
leon', catamount, puma, panther and painter.

 

[Bob Nelson 35Whelen]

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@Skinnersblade
She looks like she would suit your rugged outdoors looks mate
Bob

 

[wesheltonj]

TPWD in their Outdoor Annual list them as Mountain Lion.

I have heard and used both here in South Texas/Hill Country.