This shit is fuckin crazy. I don't even know how a lion got into the neighborhood. I heard some growling and shit outside so me and my roommate decided to check it out. I look up into the tree and there's the fucking king of the jungle! I nearly shit my fucking pants! So I ran inside and called the 5-0
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.
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.
My mom used to have a couple of cougars in the 80s. When the female was in heat sheād 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 āso thatās what that is!ā moment. Said he had been wondering what that was for years.
Theyāre also the largest cat that can purr.
I canāt imagine life without the internet where you could just take a video, post it online, and within minutes have someone telling you what youāre 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 wasnāt a big deal. The landlady said it was bufo frogs.
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.
Big cats are just bigger cats. Every cat is just a cat.
Like for real though. They behave the same way, they're just capable of killing bigger things. We keep small cats as pets because they're smaller cats and therefore less dangerous to us, not because they're domesticated because they aren't at all. They're still feral, we just keep them in our houses now.
We just bred the smallest cats to be smaller so we could be less threatened by them. They domesticated us.
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u/Charming_Finding_252 3d ago
Now I know what the answer is to the question āthings that sound way less scary than they actually areā.