What do you call this cat?

[tigris115]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1376233648702300164

To answer these 2 questions

1. I alternate between mountain lion and cougar

2. I'm from NY

 

[DieJager]

1. Poema
2. The Netherlands

 

[WilhelmM]

1. Cougar or Mountain Lion (both terms are used interchangeably)
2. South Africa

 

[MS 9x56]

1. Puma 2. NY

 

[George A Strickland]

The ones we have around here are panthers. Florida Panther to be exact.

 

[JimP]

Mountain lion, or cougar. I have also heard just about all the other names for them also

From Coloado USA

 

[Firebird]

Cougar
I’m from utah
They love to eat domestic cats.

 

[buck wild]

Mountain lion

The Great State of TEXAS USA !!

 

[everett]

Mountain lion when referring to those in most of North America. Puma when referring to those in South America. Panther or cougar when referring to those, or the possibility of those, in my local area.

US, Mississippi

 

[mdwest]

Mountain Lion or Cougar...

Texas

 

[sgt_zim]

Mountain lion

The Great State of TEXAS USA !!

They may be mountain lions out around Alpine, but here around Houston, it's cougar.

Not that I follow sportsball all that much, but the University of Houston COUGARS are in the NCAA men's basketball Final Four.

 

[Justbryan]

Mountain lion

The Great State of TEXAS USA !!

Agreed, Texas.

 

[Muskox]

I call them mountain lions, normally just "lions". I have called them lions my entire life. A lot of people call them cougars, and even though the ones in Florida are referred to as panthers I still call them lions.

The USFWS has brought in Texas strain Mountain Lion to increase genetic diversity in the Florida strain mountain lion population. So even if the ones in Florida were a isolated patch of cats, they are now related to the ones in South Texas.

Here in New Mexico some people call them cougars, and some call them lions. It is very regional (down to the county) depending on where you live in the Western USA, and Canada. Most Canadians also can't figure out what to call them either.

State game and fish agencies refer to them officially by a variety of names.

Arizona Mountain Lion
Texas Mountain Lion
Wyoming Mountain Lion
Montana Mountain Lion
Nevada Mountain Lions
Idaho Mountain Lion
South Dakota Mountain Lion
North Dakota Mountain Lion
Colorado Mountain Lion
Oklahoma Mountain Lion
Nebraska Mountain Lion

Utah Cougar
Alberta Cougar
New Mexico Cougar
Yukon Territory Cougars
British Columbia Cougar
Oregon Cougar

Alaska both cougar and mountain lion
California both cougar and mountain lion

Florida Panther

I am from Wyoming originally, and will always call them mountain lions.

 

[Ryan]

Mountain Lion
Grew up in Arizona.

 

[Muskox]

I will add that New Mexico is very strange about naming conventions on wildlife.

We have gemsbok oryx here on White Sands Missile Range released in the 1960's the state calls them oryx.

We have Persian Ibex in the Florida mountains, and we used to have Siberian Ibex near Santa Fe. The ibex in the Floridas were always called Persian Ibex and now they are just ibex.

We have Aoudad/ Barbary sheep in the entire eastern and northern half of the state. The state refers to them as Barbary sheep and never aoudad.

I bought a mountain lion tag from the girl at the Game and Fish counter here in Las Cruces last year and I asked for a mountain lion tag and she left, looked puzzled and came back a few minutes later to lecture me that they were cougars not mountain lions.

There are also Hymalayan Tahr on Mt Taylor near Gallup.

I laughed at her stupidity in my head, smiled and got what I needed and got out.

 

[VertigoBE]

Puma
Belgium

 

[jasyblood]

1 Mountain Lion
2 Texas

 

[Bullthrower338]

Mountain Lion

cougar

puma

this completes today’s lesson

 

[MS 9x56]

My great grandmothers people called the takoskowa (Mohawk Indian)

 

[wlambert]

Grew up calling them Mountain Lions, but I hear Cougar just as often. Puma, Panther far less often. I've heard they call them Red Tigers in parts of Mexico??

Kentucky (but Dad and I both hunted them in Utah)