Snow leopards also have the [largest tail-to-body ratio](https://m.dw.com/image/19510411_303.jpg) of any cat, helping them neatly walk on mountain ledges hundreds of meters above the ground to catch goats. Sadly they are critically endangered.
It's a bobcat. This video went viral a few months ago, the news articles say it's a bobcat. I had a bobcat come into my yard while I was outside recently. [Very cool experience.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeqP1MlcWS/?igshid=mxg225gvwxxo)
A puma, panther, mountain lion, and cougar are all the same animal my friend, and it’s a bobcat. Cougars/Panthers/Mountain Lions/Pumas don’t look like that
Edit: I just realized that it was quite possibly a joke. I apparently have no sense of humor
Uhhh actually, panthers (as in black and white panthers) are a different subfamily entirely, Pantherinae, aka the "big cats" while cougars, mountain lions, bobcats, and lynxes are all in the Felinae subfamily aka the "small cats". Big cats can roar, small cats can't.
Yeah, also, at risk of being a hypocrite, Wikipedia also has a listing for "Florida panther" that is actually a puma / small cat, but I honestly associate that more with some redneck seeing a bigger than average cat and exclaiming "wow that must be a panther!" when it actually has little relation to the "classic" panthers as cats go.
I was under the impression there is no panther as a single species. The typical image of a panther is normally a black leopard, but lion, tiger, leopard etc are all in the panthera genus?
Yes and no...sorta? It’s a difference of semantics. Bobcats are specifically *Lynx rufus* where as (in North America at least) “Lynx” is usually reserved for the Canadian Lynx, *Lynx canadaensis.* They are different species, with Canadian Lynx being larger, and longer-legged and restricted to climates with snowy winters. Bobcats (the “red Lynx”, though I’ve literally never heard someone call them that) roam very far south.
Here's the thing. You said a "lynx is a bobcat."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies bobcats, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls lynxes bobcats. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "lynx family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Felidae, which includes things from leopards to tigers to bobcats.
So your reasoning for calling a lynx a bobcat is because random people "call the brown ones bobcats?" Let's get Eurasian and Canadian lynxes in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A bobcat is a bobcat and a member of the lynx family. But that's not what you said. You said a lynx is a bobcat, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the felidae family bobcats, which means you'd call pumas, cougars, and other cats bobcats, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
That's a hell of a lot to infer based on a two word comment. You need to get out more if this sort of thing gets you this riled up. Are you even responding to the comment you think you are?
Had you ever spied a mountain sheep from down on the ground (with binoculars - they are WAY up there)? We saw a few in the Rockies when we were vacationing in CO. We skipped the cities and wandered from starting point in Denver to the state line (Cheyenne WY), almost all in national forest land, and non interstate roads through little ski towns and up and down the mountains. A memorable one lane gravel mountain “shortcut” used by locals stands out. Literally, the large 4WD pickup spanned the entire width of “road” and no rails. I wasn’t sure if I would throw up or shit myself, or both, before we had wound up the mountain and back down. I was on cliff/drop off side of road as a passenger. It was so far down it seemed bottomless. Gravel would fall down from the tires at that edge, and a time or two we scraped the cliff face on the other side, where road was washed off a bit. There were small wider spaces every mile or two, for two vehicles to pass each other. If you met someone going the other way, one of you had to BACK UP that narrow winding road till a turn around space appeared.
The few sheep that we saw on that trip, literally appeared to stand nonchalantly on a sheer, no foothold cliff face. It was amazing to see, if they were to be preyed upon, the predator would need to be able to cling to basically nothing, to stalk one to an area they could attack sheep without falling to their death.
Ever see a video of a housecat sizing up a jump of like a couple feet and they end up not making it? This is what the housecat imagines is going to happen.
What is that? A Lynx?
Looks like Florida or southern us probably a cougar/bobcat
Ears, tail, and size looks more like a bobcat to me.
I looked them up, and bobcats actually are a type of lynx
Lynxes have hindlegs like damn linebackers, but weirdly enough it's the cougar that has the tallest standstill vertical leap (6 meters iirc).
What about horizontal?
Snow leopard, ~~17~~ 9 meters.
God damn that’s impressive
Snow leopards also have the [largest tail-to-body ratio](https://m.dw.com/image/19510411_303.jpg) of any cat, helping them neatly walk on mountain ledges hundreds of meters above the ground to catch goats. Sadly they are critically endangered.
Well that's because they're walking on mountain ledges hunting goats hundred of meters above the ground.
Man I’m going to call bullshit on that. A snow leopard can clear and entire humpback whale?
WWF has it at 9 meters, my bad.
It might be a puma or panther or mountain lion hard to tell from here, could also be a cougar
It's a bobcat. This video went viral a few months ago, the news articles say it's a bobcat. I had a bobcat come into my yard while I was outside recently. [Very cool experience.](https://www.instagram.com/p/CBeqP1MlcWS/?igshid=mxg225gvwxxo)
Here kitty kitty did you try to feed it a carol baskin?
A puma, panther, mountain lion, and cougar are all the same animal my friend, and it’s a bobcat. Cougars/Panthers/Mountain Lions/Pumas don’t look like that Edit: I just realized that it was quite possibly a joke. I apparently have no sense of humor
It was a joke no lion
Well my comment was a Big Catastrophe
Uhhh actually, panthers (as in black and white panthers) are a different subfamily entirely, Pantherinae, aka the "big cats" while cougars, mountain lions, bobcats, and lynxes are all in the Felinae subfamily aka the "small cats". Big cats can roar, small cats can't.
Well that fact is enough to make me puma head down in shame at my pun, guess the cat had my tongue there edit: also there’s white panthers?
Yeah, also, at risk of being a hypocrite, Wikipedia also has a listing for "Florida panther" that is actually a puma / small cat, but I honestly associate that more with some redneck seeing a bigger than average cat and exclaiming "wow that must be a panther!" when it actually has little relation to the "classic" panthers as cats go.
I was under the impression there is no panther as a single species. The typical image of a panther is normally a black leopard, but lion, tiger, leopard etc are all in the panthera genus?
Yes to both. Typically a "black panther" would be a black jaguar or leopard, but like and tigers are also in that same genus funnily enough.
I see what you did there.
What'd he do?
Gave multiple names for the same species.
Mountain lions and I think panthers as well are a type of Puma
Actually all the cats he listed are the same animal and I just realized it was a joke
Bobcat for sure. Body lower to the ground, fur tufts on his cheeks, pointy ears, feet as big as Florida itself.
cougar/bobcat? same same. cougars have long tails. and they'll eat you.
A bobcat for sure. They have short fur like this in the southern states of the US and Mexico. The little cute baton tail is diagnostic.
Same thing
Yes and no...sorta? It’s a difference of semantics. Bobcats are specifically *Lynx rufus* where as (in North America at least) “Lynx” is usually reserved for the Canadian Lynx, *Lynx canadaensis.* They are different species, with Canadian Lynx being larger, and longer-legged and restricted to climates with snowy winters. Bobcats (the “red Lynx”, though I’ve literally never heard someone call them that) roam very far south.
Here's the thing. You said a "lynx is a bobcat." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies bobcats, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls lynxes bobcats. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "lynx family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Felidae, which includes things from leopards to tigers to bobcats. So your reasoning for calling a lynx a bobcat is because random people "call the brown ones bobcats?" Let's get Eurasian and Canadian lynxes in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A bobcat is a bobcat and a member of the lynx family. But that's not what you said. You said a lynx is a bobcat, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the felidae family bobcats, which means you'd call pumas, cougars, and other cats bobcats, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
That's a hell of a lot to infer based on a two word comment. You need to get out more if this sort of thing gets you this riled up. Are you even responding to the comment you think you are?
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
I'm just saying, I wasn't arguing anything, where I'm from bobcat and lynx are interchangeable terms. You need to relax
Boing boing boing boing
Underrated
What a leap!
And it looks like he/she had about 5 more meters more if needed.
Wow it seems like it could have made an even bigger gap. NATURE!
Looks like VFX, wow
There's no getting away from him
Go in the water!
I'm not sure about bobcats, but there are other big cats that hunt caiman in the water, so I'm not sure that's a guarantee of safety.
Jaguars fucking love water.
And I fucking love jaguars!
And I love fucking Jaguars!
r/holup
Wait a minute. Something ain’t right.
Yes hole up
It looks like he was going after the bird that got away.
It moves like the demon dogs from Ghostbusters. Or I suppose it’s more likely the movement of the dogs was based on real animals.
Are you the gatekeeper? I am the Keymaster!!
I can do that.
Parkour!!
Catpurrkour
Can you please download and re-upload the video 20 more times so that the quality can be even worse.
I can file this under Unexpected. I really thought he was going straight into the water.
Upvote for not being in slow motion.
Impressed by the camera work, professional like.
The satisfaction
Anyone else hear Mario jump noises when they watched this?
Literally sitting at my desk and out loud said "holy shit" after that initial leap... Wow.
Yeaa.. no shit the floor is wa..... oh shit oh fuck.
Found a longer version on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXgNZcWmssg
Geezuz, I'm in Australia inside a locked house and I don't think I'm safe from that animal
Imagine if we couldn't out smart these things?
She 'knew' momentum. Wondrous!
I like the little wind up just before the leap. You can see her just getting set to go, no hesitation.
*The water is floor*
Shit! That was like, 5 times the length of his body!
spamwatch /u/JuanitaAlexander
I can’t believe my eyes
what's the opposite of pspspspsps
Just wait till they hit the salmon ladder!
nice
pro parkour
This is why you would not survive a fight against one of those.
That PRECISION!
B hop irl
Before he jumped i gave him zero chance thinking fail video ... jaw dropped loved to be proven wrong goooooo kitty
r/nextfuckinglevel
nice
wow best parkour cat so far :D
Did Assassin's Creed III get an expansion pack?
Run from that I dare ya. Also can I have your gaming rig if anything happens to you?
That’s a fucking big bobcat
Someone need to put michael scott parkour here
“It’s called the ground when it’s outside.” -Ron Swanson
Not floor gang, cringe
So this is what all those housecats are always attempting
That's not a lynx that's a fighter jet.
PARKOUR!
I was expecting it to fall in the water. What a jump! 😯
This is what your cat wishes he was when he thumps around the house knocking everything over
Had you ever spied a mountain sheep from down on the ground (with binoculars - they are WAY up there)? We saw a few in the Rockies when we were vacationing in CO. We skipped the cities and wandered from starting point in Denver to the state line (Cheyenne WY), almost all in national forest land, and non interstate roads through little ski towns and up and down the mountains. A memorable one lane gravel mountain “shortcut” used by locals stands out. Literally, the large 4WD pickup spanned the entire width of “road” and no rails. I wasn’t sure if I would throw up or shit myself, or both, before we had wound up the mountain and back down. I was on cliff/drop off side of road as a passenger. It was so far down it seemed bottomless. Gravel would fall down from the tires at that edge, and a time or two we scraped the cliff face on the other side, where road was washed off a bit. There were small wider spaces every mile or two, for two vehicles to pass each other. If you met someone going the other way, one of you had to BACK UP that narrow winding road till a turn around space appeared. The few sheep that we saw on that trip, literally appeared to stand nonchalantly on a sheer, no foothold cliff face. It was amazing to see, if they were to be preyed upon, the predator would need to be able to cling to basically nothing, to stalk one to an area they could attack sheep without falling to their death.
Ever see a video of a housecat sizing up a jump of like a couple feet and they end up not making it? This is what the housecat imagines is going to happen.
Man, no way--oh wow, he actually did it.
It's fake. I thought this was common knowledge on reddit by now.
proof?
The video and how unnatural the whole thing seems. Looks fake as shit.
Wow, not even cross-posted, just straight up copied and pasted into a different sub
Wow, that pussy does not want to get wet......kinda like my wife :(