It is not a screaming match. All medium sized cats scream. It is their roar. Only 4 of the five panthera cats can roar, lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards, and medium sized cats that cannot roar, make screaming noises instead. A snow leopard is the only panthera cat that cannot roar, but they also scream. To clarify, the panthera genus cats are 5 big cats that are very closely related, and are in the same genus. Lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards and snow leopards are the panthera cats, and are very closely related, and they can only mate and reproduce with each other, and no other cats. The pantera cats are the only 5 cats that cannot meow or purr, and they are the only cats that roar, except for the snow leopard. Before you ask, no all the other cats with leopard in their names are not leopards. They just have leopard as their name. Even the snow leopard is not a leopard, and is believed to be a small species of tiger. Nonetheless, this is what cats do, they scream. Even cougars are nicknamed mountain screamers, because they scream, and when hey scream from mountains it can be heard for miles. So along with several nicknames like mountain lion, panther, they are also called mountain screamers.
@@calliisto76 Exactly what I was going to say. All the supposed "strange stories" people say they've experienced in the woods can be attributed to the sounds of bobcats (or Lynx) combined with vivid imaginations
Not a breed. It's a fully separate SPECIES of wildcat. Breeds are just artificial sub-genres of a species, manufactured by humans in captivity. Species are far more important.
That sounds like my Sisters fighting over the curling iron in high school. The Lynx is a majestic beauty of a Feline but don't go near them, especially when they're doing the mating call.
I see this with regular cats. It's sort of their way of maintaining their territory and showing dominance, tends to be a male trait. They do this to warn other males that the territory isn't theirs and to back off.
Somewhere, at a campsite 1000 years ago, late at night, some people were driven to fear by these sounds. Nightmare fuel for a confused native american war party.
I know this comment is two years old, but nah. They're most likely having troubles about one of them invading the other's territory. Those two don't look all nice and sweet towards each other, and that's definitely not the noise they'd make if they were.
I just saw a video of 2 uniformed cops answering a “strange noises” complaint call. As they approached the area they suddenly heard these sounds😮. You’ve never seen 2 grown azz men -cops no less- turn scared so fast and run for their lives😂😂😅
Saw something in Canberra Australia once, size of an average large cat and looked like an average cat but with very little tail and a head that was easy 5 inches from jowl to jowl, the head was impressive, definitely feral yet used to humans, I'd just eaten a full roast chicken with some meat left on it in dribs and drabs so I'd placed it on the roof of my car and watched him or her destroy those bones, crunch crunch gone, tried to get closer cause I'm a bit of a pussy lover, cat definitely did not like that, ten feet was it's safety zone, was it a Lynx or a Bobcat, mattered not, I'd have adopted it on the spot cause like I'd said I'm a pussy lover and this little thing was awesome, never saw it again...
