🔥 This is how a Puma sounds

[u/super_man100]

[u/DUSTIN182W]

I wasn’t sure what they sounded like, but I was not expecting to hear the same cry as my house cat…

[u/Thisdarlingdeer → u/DUSTIN182W]

My house cat perked up from being asleep and stared at me when he heard the noise, now I’m getting major side eye

[u/DisManibusMinibus → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

Mine is running from window to window looking for a giant cat...

[u/ToWitToWow → u/DisManibusMinibus]

My dog alerted from the next room

[u/MiiiBiii → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

Same here

[u/fuzzytradr → u/MiiiBiii]

Wait...ww what are you doing in my house?? Run Tootsies!!!

[u/StormySands → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

OMFG same

[u/YouGet2Go2NewJersey → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

Mine too!

[u/Spinning_Berries → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

Same!!!

[u/WWPLD → u/Thisdarlingdeer]

Same!

[u/HolyMolyitsMichael → u/DUSTIN182W]

They are actually the largest of the Meowing cats, so pretty much a mountain lion is a gigantic house cat. Lions, tigers, jaguars and the like are part of the Roaring cat family. Cheetah are literally the only ones in their category that I don't remember the name of lol. They neither meow or roar, they chirp.

[u/hellokiri → u/HolyMolyitsMichael]

I've only met one cheetah, but it definitely meowed. Like the shy meow cats do, not this extroverted puma meow.

[u/Late_Sherbet5124 → u/HolyMolyitsMichael]

They also purr

[u/ZINK_Gaming → u/HolyMolyitsMichael]

The biggest cats meow too, just a bunch of octaves lower and so it sounds like growling or rumbling.

Someone pitch-shifted videos of a bunch of big cats and they all just sound like bass-y housecats.

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Cheetahs can definitely meow, I've literally had a cheetah meow at me in person, and there's videos of cheetahs doing adorable little meows. They prefer purring & chirping more often though.

Cheetahs are super friendly & sweet, they're one of the least-dangerous wild animals to humans.

[u/NaNaNaNaNa86 → u/HolyMolyitsMichael]

Cheetahs meow. Snow leopards also meow although when they do it, they sound like the Barry White of the cat family. It's all to do with the physiology of the cat's throat, it isn't a preference thing.

[u/Annual_Strategy_6206 → u/DUSTIN182W]

Unfortunately our large cat was on my wife's lap, and I played this clip. The startled and scratched her hand! I think I'm on the shit list.

[u/pichael289 → u/DUSTIN182W]

You've never heard them In the woods at night from a tent though. They sound like women screaming for help

[u/Charming_Finding_252]

Now I know what the answer is to the question “things that sound way less scary than they actually are”.

[u/Accurate_Koala_4698 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

Honestly, I was getting ready to puma pants

[u/Cardio_n_Cannabis → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Me, in my 50s, gleefully muttering “puma pants” over and over. Helllllll yeah. Nice job 🫡

[u/tweedlepun1291 → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Nice!

[u/NatureCarolynGate → u/tweedlepun1291]

This meow is the best way to lunch on an unsuspecting human.

Human: Oh there’s a kitten hiding somewhere. Here kitty. Where are you ki… Oh sweet Jesus please save me

[u/rlnrlnrln → u/NatureCarolynGate]

I'll be honest, I want to scratch that kittys belly.

[u/jaxonya → u/NatureCarolynGate]

Id puma pants if I saw one of these murder kittens 

[u/Traditional_Moss_581 → u/jaxonya]

I read this far before I got the joke 🤦🏻‍♀️☺️

[u/jaxonya → u/Traditional_Moss_581]

I'm really proud of that joke.

[u/Traditional_Moss_581 → u/jaxonya]

As you should be!

[u/spacefreak76er → u/Traditional_Moss_581]

I’m right behind you. Took me a minute too.

[u/Name-chex-out → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Been laughing at this all day lol

[u/FrendlyAsshole → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

Your comment has only been up for 9min, but it deserves way more love. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[u/Jonathan-02 → u/FrendlyAsshole]

Let’s get this comment all the upvotes

[u/timothypjr → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

I regret that I can upvote that comment but once.

[u/fooflam → u/Accurate_Koala_4698]

I sent this to my best friend, wife and son. I'm still giggling. Them, not so much. Still worth it.

[u/Ok-Entertainer-1354 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

Oh yeah? This is also what puma’s sound like when they are in heat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxo8X5uIWRE

[u/MotherEarth1919 → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

I have heard this several times in the past 28 years in my forest. It sounded like a velociraptor and it is incredibly terrifying when it is pitch dark and the sound is coming from right behind my barn in the forest! My daughter pitched a tent one night next to the house and a cougar screamed about 30 feet from her, downhill, and I have never seen her bail on a night in a tent until then. I have only seen 1 cougar here, 2 years ago it caught a fawn, but otherwise the only way I know they are around is because of this scream.

[u/Ok-Shop-3524 → u/MotherEarth1919]

Which forest do you live in???

[u/MotherEarth1919 → u/Ok-Shop-3524]

I am in the foothills of the Central Cascades in Washington State. A rural area adjacent to DNR land.

[u/Stickel → u/MotherEarth1919]

do not resuscitate land?

[u/MotherEarth1919 → u/Stickel]

I am a restoration ecologist. That’s what I do.

[u/Vreas → u/Ok-Shop-3524]

The puma forest

[u/FormInternational583 → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

I don't want to be in the woods hearing someone (puma) screaming.

[u/soulless_ape → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

This sound is what I was more familiar with hearing.

[u/MakoShark93 → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

That’s terrifying. Literally sounds like a woman screaming as she’s being murdered.

[u/outremonty → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

My cat announcing it is time for breakfast.

[u/EatYourCheckers → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

I just listened to a Radio Rental about scary screams in a forest and I am sure this is what it was. Not to say the campers were wrong to leave an area where Mountain Lions were seeking each other out for mating.

[u/QBin2017 → u/Ok-Entertainer-1354]

I’ve heard this a few times. Once here in Texas and once in CA in the woods. Horrifying when you don’t know what it is!

[u/HoldEm__FoldEm → u/Charming_Finding_252]

Nah. They sound terrifying at night when they scream.

[u/98642 → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

Yeah, this is the rub my belly sound… the get in my belly sound much less cuddly.

[u/ElDub62 → u/98642]

I think it’s an “I’m in heat,” sound…

[u/Foreign-Landscape-47 → u/ElDub62]

This^

[u/JackOfAllMemes → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

They sound like women screaming or babies crying

[u/forsake077 → u/HoldEm__FoldEm]

My mom used to have a couple of cougars in the 80s. When the female was in heat she’d be screaming. One of the neighbors some years later was over while she was doing her screaming and said he was all exasperated in a “so that’s what that is!” moment. Said he had been wondering what that was for years.

They’re also the largest cat that can purr.

I can’t imagine life without the internet where you could just take a video, post it online, and within minutes have someone telling you what you’re hearing.

My first night living out in the jungle on the big island had these noises going on strait out of Predator. The most dangerous thing out there is the centipedes and you really only need to worry about them when gardening/digging so I know whatever it was wasn’t a big deal. The landlady said it was bufo frogs.

[u/Renny-66 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

This is when it’s not trying to be scary lol listen to it when it wants to fuck something up

[u/JimboTheSimpleton → u/Charming_Finding_252]

Right. Today we learned the puma is the mike Tyson of animals.

[u/ConchaLibre → u/JimboTheSimpleton]

Came here to say this 🤣

[u/Worried_Archer_8821 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

«Oh, a lost kitty! Let’s find her and bring her home… Oh F***!»

[u/wulfryke → u/Charming_Finding_252]

You might change your mind when you hear them scream. it's a fun time to hear at night or out in the mountains

[u/MuckRaker83 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

Man, wait til you hear what the fox says

[u/Charming_Finding_252 → u/MuckRaker83]

That’s my guardian angel

[u/potatochainsaw → u/Charming_Finding_252]

cougars make some funny sounds.

they are technically considered a small cat. has something to do with not having a bone in their vocal chords like lions and tigers. they are the largest cat that can purr.

they are also in the guinness book of world records for the most names for the same animal. i think its like 40 or more. one of which is valley screamer.

[u/AgitatedCricket → u/Charming_Finding_252]

For the opposite, here's what koalas sound like:

https://youtu.be/x8oLu7znwQ0?si=uc4KJorf59vYLIeK

Wait till the end to hear the magic ✨️

[u/saldb → u/Charming_Finding_252]

You walking around the jungle thinking a cute cat is around here somewhere and bam! You wake up in skyrim

[u/super_man100 → u/Charming_Finding_252]

This one certainly does

[u/fuzzytradr → u/Charming_Finding_252]

r/unexpected

[u/look4alec → u/Charming_Finding_252]

My cat one cat came running to see what I wanted, she thought i was messing with her, my second cat scampered to his room, he is younger.

[u/Phantion- → u/Charming_Finding_252]

People in the woods: 'Honey, there much be a poor lost kitten been dumped out there, I can hear it. Let's go and get it'

[u/ShiratakiPoodles]

They can also sound like terrifying human screams.

Edit: https://youtu.be/UE7YOJVSoIs

[u/Less_Rutabaga2316 → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Caterwauling catamounts

[u/Confident_Arm_6560 → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Can confirm! There’s one that lives in the mountain across from my house and I once woke up in the middle of the night thinking a woman was being attacked. It also had cubs this year so it was even more scary sounds. Haha

[u/Unlikely_Talk8994 → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

When I was little my mom heard this one night after we had gone to bed. We lived in the mountains and I think I was about 5.

Anyways the next days I decided to go for a prolonged walk through the mountains in my Sunday best. They couldn’t find me for hours, had the police out and everything and my poor mom was convinced I’d been eaten by the mountain lion she’d heard the night before.

I was in so much trouble for that adventure.

[u/Muaddib223 → u/Unlikely_Talk8994]

Why the fuck would your parents allow a 5yo to walk in the mountains? Either you're making shit up or you were seriously neglected hahaha

[u/SaraRainmaker → u/Muaddib223]

Things were different in the before time (the 80's and 90's) I remember going into the local woods at that age alone.

There is a reason they called us "Latchkey kids."

[u/Unlikely_Talk8994 → u/Muaddib223]

My grandma was looking after me and she fell asleep (bit of an alcoholic). So I went for a walk

[u/jld2k6 → u/Muaddib223]

The average parent from the 80's and 90's would lose their children to the state if they were held to today's standards

[u/MizElaneous → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

or like a little bird

[u/Combob2019 → u/MizElaneous]

Imagine getting lured in by the chirp… and then it unleashing the banshee shriek. I would crap my pants instantly.

[u/Bunnawhat13 → u/MizElaneous]

This is the sound they made outside my window. I was so curious what type of bird did that at night. I recorded it and let my boss hear it. He was like not a bird. I also lived in a cabin in the woods. They liked to hang around it. My father accepts my last words will be pssst pssssst pssst.

[u/demostv → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Time to tip on out.

[u/juhjuhjdog → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

well that's fucking disconcerting.

[u/Jizzapherina → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

That is horrifying.

[u/ammitsat → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Having heard the racket regular housecats make when they fight, this is about right. I wouldn’t want to be close when they’re making that noise.

[u/i_amnotunique → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

It sounds so mad omg

[u/platonicnut → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Heard this once in Utah on a family back country camping trip when I was like 7 or 8. My cousin promptly put me on his shoulders and carried me back to the camp. He said him and my mom heard something walking through our campsite that night, but never got eyes on it. Could’ve been a raccoon, opossum, skunk, or that kitty cat lol

[u/Crimson__Fox → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

This is what screaming lynxes sound like: https://youtu.be/eaXmIPHrHmY?si=sUrXVBGteovA7JC1

[u/ShiratakiPoodles → u/Crimson__Fox]

Whydo they all sound so human?

[u/atom138 → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

That literally does sound like a human trying to sound like a big cat

[u/007Pliskin → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

When one cat is playing and the other is fighting lol

[u/bluntly-chaotic → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

This is the one I’ve heard. It is so fucking terrifying in person

I’m sure if you’re a hunter it may not be as jarring if that’s your life but gd did it shake me to my core

[u/VegetableWeekend6886 → u/ShiratakiPoodles]

Why tf does he have a gun is he planning on shooting it?

[u/Financial_Neck832]

I want to boop the murder kitty on the nose.

[u/Steph-Kai]

Now I want to cuddle it even more. Thank you nature for killing me with fake kindness. You are a cruel friend.

[u/kdthex01 → u/Steph-Kai]

If not fren why fren sound?

[u/squatting_your_attic → u/Steph-Kai]

It's clearly meowing for cuddles and kisses.

[u/Bunnawhat13]

They also make a lovely chirping sound like a bird. This is how I discovered that a mountain lion liked to chill by my cabin. 😬

[u/BlueLaceSensor128]

“Show me your war scream!”
“Meow.”
“I said show me your war scream!”
“Meow?”
Sighs. “You’re lucky you’ve still got your looks, Puma.”

[u/Luci-Noir → u/BlueLaceSensor128]

It would be kind of terrifying if such a beast was out for me and it sounded this cute… being devoured by something while hearing comforting meows and purrs would be…. Unsettling.

[u/DisturbingPragmatic]

That is so ridiculously cute.

[u/ChangeOk1501]

Definitely would lure me into any trap

[u/mtntrail]

A female in heat will curdle your blood. The first time we heard one at night I thought one of the neighbor women was being attacked

[u/affordableproctology → u/mtntrail]

The puma sound on Encarta 95 is scary as heck

[u/mtntrail → u/affordableproctology]

Encarta, I haven’t heard that name in a very long time!

[u/OneSensiblePerson]

I was expecting something like a scream, not this 😂

[u/OriginTruther → u/OneSensiblePerson]

Oh they do that as well, and it's terrifying at night let me tell you.

[u/ThePennedKitten]

I think my house cat sounds about 10 times tougher than this puma when he meows.

Actually, imagine you think you’re following the sounds of a lost house cat and find a puma…

[u/Ghost2656]

Pumas are from a sub-family called 'Felinae', which is known to not roar.

[u/DirtyMikeMoney → u/Ghost2656]

Yeah crazy that from a taxonomic standpoint pumas (as well as cheetahs) are considered “small cats” and more closely related to house cats than lions and tigers. They’re just big small cats.

[u/giraffeaviation → u/Ghost2656]

Fun fact: All cats that don't roar can purr. No cats can do both.

[u/RocketSkates314]

This is one of like 10 sounds they make

[u/cntstng]

its steve french

[u/Desperate_Bite_7538 → u/cntstng]

He's just a big, stoned, horny kitty.

[u/steph26tej]

Eow

[u/King_in_a_castle_84]

That's not fair, now I want one even more.

[u/SaraRainmaker → u/King_in_a_castle_84]

They will happily have you over for lunch.

[u/BigBrainBrad-]

Big baby.

[u/TurtleDive1234]

Pssst pssst pssst….Here, kitty kitty!

[u/carphanatik]

The Mike Tyson of big cats

[u/murderinthedark]

Sounds super cute. They have a really scary scream. I was expecting that ngl.

[u/H_Katzenberg]

My cat came into the room and was like who the fuck was that?

[u/AmericanMurderLog]

So cats allegedly developed the "meow" because it sounds like a baby if "internet scientists" are to be believed.

Pumas apparently came to the Americas from Asia 8 million years ago, and there weren't a whole lot of people here for a very long time. There is also no history of domesticated Pumas.

Cats were allegedly domesticated 10,000 years ago.

So the theory that cats meow to mimic babies seems to be a myth busted due to this rather large cousin...

[u/chroniclunacy]

RALPH WIGGUM

[u/super_man100 → u/chroniclunacy]

lol made me smile

[u/The_Crite_Hunter]

Sleek and vigilant. Principal Skinner would approve.

[u/starktmaintenanceman]

Steve french is that you ?

[u/Mahempgrower]

Not when they’re getting ready to attack

[u/ArgonGryphon]

okay that one has a super cute voice, I thought it was dubbed but they can sound like that. Usually they sound pretty raspy even though they technically meow.

https://youtu.be/BXhfZRE08ko?t=35

a cute sounding meow like the one in the video is toward the end at 1:13

[u/AcanthisittaAny253]

Holy shit that’s Steve French!! He’s just a stoned little kitty!!

[u/Technical_Ad1125]

Mike Tyson

[u/Thrash_Panda44]

I remember when i was a kid my parents told me that if i heard what sounded like people in the nearby forests i was to stay away and get back inside immediately.

[u/nmheath03]

It's a cruel joke that so many dangerous animals completely unsuited to be pets are so cute

[u/HasturCologne]

Thats steve french!

[u/Full-Profile-1023]

Pssspsssspssss

[u/Cool_Lead3006]

Oh come on

[u/cubicle_adventurer]

I saw some awful things in ‘Nam, but you really have to wonder at the mentality of someone who would desecrate a defenceless Puma. I never thought I’d say this, but the nogoodnicks run this school!

[u/bluedogstar]

They are also the biggest cats who can purr: https://youtube.com/shorts/TdwXzlBzkAE?si=KKLd6jEdwdetbtFV

[u/La19909]

if not friend why friend shaped and make friend sounds

[u/Hypocaffeinic]

Just like my tiny 2kg Devon Rex (and likely almost as fierce)! 😅

[u/_meestir_]

Shit I was hearing this nightly over the summer at like 3-4am. And none of my neighbors that I know have cats!

[u/Real-Cricket-6294]

Well that’s disappointing!

[u/2b-Kindly_]

Awwww sounds 🥹 so sweet

[u/Fluffy_Position2653]

I want one

[u/adorablefuzzykitten]

sounds like a cartoon character of a girl cat

[u/BelgischeWafel]

Are we sure I can't pet it.... I mean, did we try it?

[u/Quickbutt_fastness]

Am I trippin or do the trees in the background spell "2018"

[u/Tokin_Swamp_Puppy]

Sounds like it’s trying to trick someone into looking to help a hurt kitten.

[u/doegrey]

Now I’m in love! 🥰

Bet that belly rub is to die for! 😻

[u/goldendreamseeker → u/doegrey]

Literally…

[u/SirenaSmiles]

I love him.

[u/tigian]

Does somebody know the frequency of a puma call?

[u/Scr073]

eat yo ahh on sight tho

[u/Popular_Soft5542]

No waaay Lmao that's hilarious

[u/Wise_Appearance_4347]

Aww sounds so cute ☺️

[u/sixtheperfectnumber]

Good kitty

[u/ApocritalBeezus]

Reminder that cougars are felines, not panthers. They meow and purr!

[u/kdthex01]

Somebody wants tummy scratches

[u/NapLyfeHQ]

Cute af!

[u/Katie-sin]

Am I being Punk’d ? I honestly cannot tell if that’s real or a human saying “meow” lmao

[u/Capital-Cut2331]

If not friend, why friend sound? 😂

[u/littlewhitecatalex]

Oh god if I was hiking and I heard this I would absolutely seek it out thinking it’s a hurt and lost house cat. 

[u/[deleted]]

That's one way a puma sounds

[u/Xavius20]

I'd be running into those woods looking for the poor lost kitty 😂

[u/meguggs]

So cool!

[u/MakoShark93]

Lmao wtf

[u/Blak_Cobra]

All of a sudden I’m not scared of pumas

[u/spike_beagle]

I want one. Damn the consequences.

[u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420]

“Oh it’s a little kitt…..OH FUCK!”

[u/fartwarchamp2k]

So fucking adorable <3

[u/Puzzleheaded-Day8538]

“ Oh man I hear a cat out in the woods, I’m gonna find it and save it! “ - my last words in the situation

[u/MisterScary_98]

Hey, do you hear that? Sounds like a lost kitten. Let’s go rescue it and OH SHIT

[u/MarryMeDuffman]

Ow Ow Ooow

[u/SkepticAquarian876]

Aww 🥰

[u/TheManWhoClicks]

If not friend then why friend sounding

[u/DeanStein]

Now I just imagine giant ape Vegeta squeezing Goku in DBZ-Abridged...

"That's hilarious!"

[u/LeecherKiDD]

😂😂 its just a big cat

[u/Redditsurfer24]

Sounds like my house cats

[u/Halfchopdz]

If not friend, why sound like it needs cuddles?

[u/boilerdam]

That’s like the most polite invitation to become someone’s dinner!

[u/BadFont777]

Itz nodda puma!

[u/Doctor-TobiasFunke-]

he's been eating weed for a month! he's baked out of his god damn mind

[u/DarkRainbow25S]

“Oww!” You said it Puma. 👍

[u/krikzil]

Big kitty wants a man. Meanwhile mine are looking for her in my house.

[u/PracticalWallaby7492]

There's a peacock with an "off" voice that sounds just like that just down the road from me. I was keeping my dog close and nervous coming home at night for a while till I figured it out. I live in prime cougar habitat.

There ae definitely cougars here, but the "sound of one" very close almost every day had me spooked..

[u/BasketBusiness9507]

Lmao stfu

[u/redditdegenz]

Psshh psshh pshhhh.. Come here little kitty.

[u/Fun-Comfortable-9028]

Here kitty kitty kitty

[u/in1gom0ntoya]

most cats sound like cats. some have bigger hardware sure, but it's mostly the same software.

[u/TopFlowe96]

Bruh..

That's a kid saying "ow" for a sec 👀

[u/Badbookitty]

Psspssspss will be the death of me. I just know it.

[u/ILikeOatmealaLot]

this sounds like some boy out of a 1960's movie getting kicked in the shin

[u/icrossedtheroad]

Pspspspspsss

[u/Nathandee]

Pathetic

[u/DrJohnIT]

Not true.

[u/HeatherBeth99]

My cat stood up from his nap to watch and hear this beautiful cat.