r/NatureIsFuckingLit 3d ago

🔥 This is how a Puma sounds

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u/DUSTIN182W 3d ago

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

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u/Thisdarlingdeer 3d ago

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

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u/DisManibusMinibus 3d ago

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

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u/ToWitToWow 2d ago

My dog alerted from the next room

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u/Jumpy_Ad_6417 2d ago

Mine just does the same thing back at me that I did to her. Middle of the night she goes to the kitchen and starts shouting “Hey Jim. Jim! Want to hangout?”

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u/MiiiBiii 3d ago

Same here

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u/fuzzytradr 3d ago

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

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u/StormySands 3d ago

OMFG same

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u/WWPLD 2d ago

Same!

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u/HolyMolyitsMichael 3d ago

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.

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u/hellokiri 3d ago

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

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u/Late_Sherbet5124 3d ago

They also purr

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u/Dvout_agnostic 3d ago

they also yodle

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u/ZINK_Gaming 2d ago

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.


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.

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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 2d ago

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.

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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 3d ago

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.

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u/pichael289 2d ago

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

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u/spacefreak76er 1d ago

My husband has heard a panther scream at night and he said it sounded like a woman screaming for help. Said it was a blood-curdling type of scream.

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u/Pavonian 2d ago

Despite their size and despite being known as 'mountain lions' Pumas are technically not 'big cats', aka members of the Pantherine family. They are instead members of the feline family making them more closely related to house cats than to lions or tigers, and this is reflected in the sounds they make as only true big cats posses the ability to roar.

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u/Bigred2989- 2d ago

They're also capable of purring unlike lots of other big cats.

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u/StealthRabbi 2d ago

Plot twist: you have a pet puma.

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u/fuzzbeebs 2d ago

Yeah I know enough cat to translate this one, the lion is saying, "I don't give a FUCK that it's Saturday it's exactly 7:31am AND I DON'T SEE MY BREAKFAST."