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To: cll
So, was it a mountain lion, a cougar or a puma or are all those the same thing?

Yes. Also called a catamount or panther some places.

27 posted on 05/17/2012 4:42:30 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: Hugin; SJackson; GladesGuru

Thanks to all. All this time I thought they were different animals. Where I’m from we only have domestic cats and no wild beasts to speak of.

That reminds me of a story. I once was golfing at Rodman US Navy Base in Panama before the handover. On the golf course they had signs in Spanish that read “Cuidado con los gatos y los lagartos” (Beware of cats and lizards). To me a cat was a domestic cat and a lizard one of those tiny things we have around our island. Anyway, I soon learned what they meant by cats when I, left alone at a green felt a stalking prescence, and my buddy, who had gone down the hill to get beers from the booze cart, started yelling like a madman in my direction and throwing beer bottles at the jungle. “Didn’t you see that?!”, he said. “See what?”, I replied. “A freaking “gato” was about to pounce on you!”. “Why should I be afraid of a freaking cat?”. “It was a freaking jaguar!”.


57 posted on 05/17/2012 6:46:14 PM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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