Names for mountain lions
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Dev Purandare
Today I learned there are more than 40 English names for the mountain lion, a Guinness world record. Yet I couldn’t quickly find a list of all of them, so I dug them up:
Names for Mountain Lions:
- American Lion
- American Panther
- Bender
- Black Puma
- Brazilian Cat
- Brown Tiger
- Catamount
- Cat-o-mountain
- Cougar
- Cougare
- California Lion
- Deer Cat
- Deer-killer
- Deer Tiger
- Florida Panther
- Great Panther
- Ghost Cat
- Indian Devil
- King Cat
- Lion
- Lyon
- Mexican Lion
- Mountain Cat
- Mountain Demon
- Mountain Devil
- Mountain Tiger
- Mountain Screamer
- Painted Cat
- Painter
- Pampas Cat
- Panther
- Panthere
- Poltroon Tiger
- Puma
- Purple Panther
- Purple Feather
- Red Lion
- Red Panther
- Red Tiger
- Rocky Mountain Lion
- Silver Lion
- Sneak Cat
- Swamp Screamer
- Tiger
- Tyger
- Tyger of America
- Varmint
- Wild Cat
Sources:
- https://www.theanimalfiles.com/mammals/carnivores/mountain_lion.html
- THE COUGAR OR MOUNTAIN LION BY CLAUDE T. BARNES, F. Z. S. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924002895989?urlappend=%3Bseq=17%3Bownerid=27021597768386814-21