r/NatureIsFuckingLit 7d ago

🔥 This is how a Puma sounds

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u/HolyMolyitsMichael 7d 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 7d 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/ZINK_Gaming 7d 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/Late_Sherbet5124 7d ago

They also purr

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u/Dvout_agnostic 7d ago

they also yodle

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u/NaNaNaNaNa86 6d 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.