Mountain Lion Screams! Two Cougars Calling Out To Each Other And Striking Up A Courtship
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2022
- Two cougars looking for love in all the right places in the Angeles National Forest and then striking up a courtship in the canyon.
This is the story of two lions looking for each other in the night, and both of them are heard and seen caterwauling in the forest, as they get closer to finding each other. I recently shared a video of these two big cats on a date, in the daytime, passing by my creek cameras. Well this is the night before, where you see them in a canyon, several miles away, calling out to each other, eventually meeting up minutes later, and then passing by my camera, together as a “puma power couple.”
This is so special to see and so reassuring that the lion population is thriving and will continue. As it should.
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The reason this hits home with me is when I was 18-years-old I was camping in the mountains of Colorado . It began to rain so I zipped up my bag and finally dozed off. After a while I was awakened by what I thought was a woman screaming within a few feet of me. I was petrified and called out to the darkness. I sat up trying to determine what had just happened. After hearing this video, I now know that it was a mountain lion. The screams sounded exactly like what I heard. I sat still for the rest of the night but heard nothing. I just turned 70 a few days ago and finally the mystery is solved.
Bro what if it was actually a woman
@@SevenskyGaming I guess she was f&cked! LOL
Awesome story. Thanks for sharing!❤️😊
Not sure which would be more terrifying
@@SevenskyGamingI heard screaming foxes sound exactly like a woman being murdered- female foxes are called vixens.
I live in the mountains and I legit just got woken up at four in the morning by this, I thought there was a woman screaming outside my window but it was a mountain lion😳
Look a like sound as a woman but it's not
Calling her partner to come
I once dated a cougar that screamed like that. I had to put a sock in her mouth so the neighbors wouldn't call 911.
Nice one 🤡😂
My wife and I were outside one evening and heard something similar to this only longer lasting each time. We thought it was a woman screaming, but our dogs went ballistic. They freaked out and the hair on the back of their necks puffed up like a lion’s mane. We knew what it was then. For three days the dogs walked patrols around our house. Never did anything like this before we heard it. They’re outside dogs, but we tried to get them to come in for a few days. They wouldn’t stay in. Wanted to guard, I guess.
If you ever hear this crying in a dark woods at night you will never forget it, I heard this cry 50 years ago and I will never for get it.
It was a cougar screaming for sex. You missed out.
I was living in a new house in the woods about 25 miles from Syracuse, New York, in the middle of the state, not the Adirondack or Catskill mountains.
I heard what sounded like a drunk woman shouting "ow, ow, OW!" behind my house, 2AM.
I almost called 911 until the ow, ow, OW crescendoed in a scream that was clearly not human.
The neighbors tried to tell me it was a bobcat. Bobcats don't sound like that.
10 years later a man going in to a small cemetery set back from the road saw a panicked deer run into the clearing, followed by a cougar.
He decided his late wife didn't need flowers that day and turned the car around.
I always told new people to keep their pets in at night, but the cemetery sighting was in broad daylight.
My cat on my lap is trying to respond....meow for meow ❤
Mine too. He did not like the yowls!
Mine too. He did not like the yowls!
Mine too. He did not like the yowls!
Mine left the room.
@@kathleensmith1958😂
This is why I don’t hike at night, or alone for that matter!
True, I stopped hiking alone after family & friends encouraged me to not alone
Yep, that’s the number one rule of the wilderness: don’t go hiking or camping alone! ✌🏼💖
Absolutely beautiful creatures. So much love and respect for mountain lions.
Yea, they really are warriors
go search for -puma messi
Yeah Until You Are Close to This Callout Sound in The Wilderness.. It's Crazy When at first you think it's Just A Bobcat. 😮 An Realize Whats going On FroM SE Iowa
On our ranch,we hear them calling every so often up in the hills,to keep them away from the calves and chickens,our dogs are trained to start barking like crazy,cougars don’t like noisy dogs and stay away,it’s worked for the last 50 yrs.we’ve gotten 100’s of pics of cougars on our place since we installed game cameras on borders of our place,we were out on horseback one day , a visitor asked what kind of bird was chirping,he said it’s making my horse nervous,I’ll tell you when we get back to the corrals,he didn’t believe me when I told him it was a cougar,showed him some game cam videos with audio of a cat chirping ,after all these years they still make the hair stand up on the back of my neck.
Glad to hear about the healthy compromise you initiated ~ wish more 'settlers' figured out ways to keep them at bay vs...the alternative.
Blessings to y'all.
@Scrap iron -- Have you ever posted any of your footage? I'm terribly curious to hear a chirping cat, so I know what 'bird' sound to be wary of!
Very cool story
@@iprobablyforgotsomethingthey imitate the local birds, cats do it to
Thank you for not killing them
It’s so cool that you have cameras placed all around so that you can view nature everywhere. Thanks for sharing.
They are gorgeous. Glad they found each other
In 2021 a beautiful mountain lion gave birth to two cubs on my property.
She would walk within 100 years of my deck a few times a week late in the evening.
She never killed any of my pets.
They have moved on now.
I really miss them. 🐆🐆🐆
What are your pets?
We hear this a few times a week. The mountain lion let's us know it is walking through the area.
My German Sheppard just went into combat mode hearing this. Good Job.
Wow. Amazing work! You’re capturing things we haven’t had the privilege of seeing before. Thank you.
Aw thank you for saying that.
This is SO beautiful! Thank you! Just proves there is someone for everyone! Strolling together, romping together in their beautiful forest home. 😊
When I was homeless I lived in a tent on some Woody's abandoned railroad tracks, I heard this scream one night and ill never forget it, killed my alcohol buzz and made me never eanna go back again.
Wow, incredible. I've never heard this before. Pretty special to be able to capture these behaviors. I can't imagine the effort that must have gone into selecting these spots and setting up the cameras. Thank you for sharing!
Yes thank you❤
We were camping on the Brazos River in the middle of nowhere. We heard the water rippling as something walked along the shoreline, not more than we feet away from our tent. Then we heard the sounds and wondered why they were. It wasn’t until we got home that we found out it was a cougar.
I heard something somewhat similar but no where hear as loud - when I did, I siad "Oh $hi# - my cat needs fixing!"
Man what memories that sound brings Back!! Years ago in the 60's growing up in California, ( not to far from the Sacramento river) my mom & dad would go night fishing for cat fish & l'll never forget this one time, they had a fire goin on the bank,( keep the 🦟 skeeters at bay) & it was after midnight, when All the sudden strange noises were coming from behind us, my dad told us all to get in car & he & mom were packing stuff up & this Mountain Lion was a ways away,& you could see its greenish- goldish eyes shining from the glare of the fire some distance away from it!! Well, dad & mom hurried to the car & locked the doors & that damm thing kept us there till sunrise-- no B.S😱, to me it sounded like a baby crying😬- it ened up in a cottonwood tree next to our car-- talk about an EXPERIANCE I never forgot🤪🐆, for Reals,
Imagine if people did this. Instead of going out to the club to meet a female, you just step out a few feet from your apartment and call out at the top of your lungs. Cities would have ordnances limiting mating calls to only certain times of the night.
Imagine camping and you’re hearing this
They are not interested in us.
It's powerful and humbling to witness their longing for each other, and their vulnerability in the wild to express their desire. Are we really much different?
@@mr.sharktoothvulnerable? You do realize the mountain lion is the apex predator of the woods right? Bears won't fuck with them a for a very good reason. They'll kill a bear no problem. They're ambush predators. Grab the neck and suffocate the prey. Bears included.
@@leviwooten3795Depends
Nature at her finest.
Hearing this at night in the mountains is absolutely terrifying
Terrifying till you realize it's just two big cats hooking up 😅
@@ieatbeanslover1016 hell that’s worse 2 lions to worry about n u know how hungry mfs get after sex
Rspecially in a tent
@@ieatbeanslover1016 no no, it’s still terrifying. That means there’s mountain lions near you at night.
I lived along side cougars, bears etc. They eat deer mainly, we lived peacefully side by side. Two vocalized walking around where my dogs were at night, saying, "We're coming through, leave us alone and we'll leave you alone." Never did any harm. It's the entitled humans that ruined the area. Destroyed bear dens, black bears don't excavate their own dens, use what's there from before. Killed the beavers on the creek also. Then talked about spending tens of thousands of dollars to build catchment basins and riffles to retain water in summer to help wildfire fighting. Creek water used to put out cabin fire, kept it out of the forest we lived in. I miss all the critters.
Heard these same sounds and more in Yosemite around 1:00AM this past Friday. It started with the one off calls and then escalated to multiple cougars making extremely loud distressed sounds for about 60 seconds. This stopped for about 2 minutes and then started up again for another minute. My fellow campers and I assumed they were either fighting or mating. Either way it was quite chilling to hear from our tent! Phenomenal work, thanks for sharing for all of us to get this beautiful intimate look at these incredible creatures.
When there is more than one male, they are both, fighting and mating.
I went camping the other week, I heard this sound pretty close, I thought it was a ghost, scared the s___ out of me, now the mystery is solved
@@user-cx1gc8pd4iif a new male takes over, he'll track down and kill the cubs, just like a lion.
The msle's territory covers the territories of multiple females.
Probably two males fighting over a female, and then the winning male mating with the aforementioned female.
Could have been an unwelcome cat in anothers territory and she had juveniles with her.
We had two females with juveniles sharing territory but they didn't want any other cats passing through to stay.
Unfortunately, both with their offspring, got killed at different times about 3 mos apart on the busy highway across the valley.
A new cat has recently come through and got my lead goat, a couple weeks ago. 😢
We've never had a predation before, although several neighbors have.
Gives a whole new meaning to a cougar booty call!! 😂😂
l'm glad they exist. l'm glad they make these sounds. l'm glad they court by rivers.
While camping we heard a mountain lion calling. Those screams in the relative quiet of the night scared the bejesus out of me.
A lot of hard work to photograph and with excellent audio too! What a rare look at their natural behavior. Some beautiful footage of a magnificent big cat! Thank you for this excellent glimpse into their courtship and mating cries. Sounds a lot like cats in heat, savage, yearning, and urgent.
Wow, he IS a big boy! He’s even got a bit of a belly on him.
THIS was AMAZING footage. Thanks so much for sharing it!!
He is huge ….not that I am an expert but he looks big boned and just beautiful
That loose belly skin is a trait on some domestic cats too, such as Maine Coons. Like they don't look big enough already.
The belly comes and goes. If they make a kill, they feast. And in between, they fast.
The belly might be a Primordial Sac. Excess skin, fur, and fat that gathers to protect the innards not sheltered by the ribs. Housecats will have it as well
@@joshcox8615 I’ve seen it on house cats, but not wild cougars. Interesting.
This was taken from the Angeles National Forest, which is less than a half mile from where I live. These cats are a force to be reckoned with. A few of them in our town on the outskirts attacked and ate a Rottweiler and another a Doberman.
ATE????? Jesus frikking wept that must have been frikking terrifying to hear and see afterwards
I am so damn glad mountain lions or any freakishly strong animal live where i do
They’re so cute at the same time, just creatures living their own lives😊
Not true. My research in previous 4 yrs shows they meet up, hook up, then males normally go east while female goes west loudly proclaiming she doesnt need a man. Maybe they too have a government financial support system
Let’s mate like the cougars
I used to live in the mountains. I studied Zoology in college before briefly moving to NM. The woods were directly behind my home in a canyon. A small river ran thru it making it a hot spit for wildlife and my dream come true.
We had a barbecue when I heard a mountain Lion screaming out like this. The guests panicked. They wanted to go inside immediately. I wanted to retrieve my camera and telephoto lens. They prayed for me & informed me white people were crazy. I didn’t argue w the crazy part, but was unsure why they were so nervous. We were at plenty of safe distance high in the canyon.
Turns out they believed it was a skinwalker coming expressly for me. Why only me?
*sigh* I’d rescued 2 baby owls prior to that who fell from their nest during a storm. I held them in my hands, because… ya know hands. 🙌 We, as humans, use hands to pick things up. Unbeknownst to me, Mexicans and Hispanics believe owls are witches. I guess that made me a witch by handling 2 baby witches. Or idk. Maybe it made me a shapeshifting skinwalker? I’m not certain. None the less, I proved them right by willingly trying to photograph a skinwalker.
Try as I may, I couldn’t make them understand it was a mountain Lion…& owls were …ya know…OWLS! The mountain Lion was undeniably more dangerous than any witch I may have inadvertently handled.
Still, they were grateful our house trim was painted witch and demon repellent turquoise. I guess that’s the magic color that prevents skinwalkers and witches from entering and possessing you. Idk. I was overjoyed to hear her mating call. I wished I could share it w someone. Especially when I saw her up in a tree later. She had a lot of melanin. She appeared almost jet black. Absolutely beautiful. I happened upon her chilling in a tree while on a hike. Thankfully she was full and unthreatened. Neither she nor I wanted to deal w confrontation that day.
God it was different living surrounded by those beliefs. 😂
This is so amazing. 50 years ago much of what you captured was still a mystery, even to experts on the subject.
Even the “scrape” there was an ongoing argument over whether they used their front feet (like domestic cats) or back feet. Now because of folks like you we know!!!
Bravo, Robert! You've done it again. WOW! I'm laughing at myself because I get super excited when I get 3 seconds of a mountain lion walking by my cameras. And then I see what you have done, SO impressive! You do the hard work of maintaining many cameras, hiking deep into the forest over and over again in all seasons to service them, and then spend the hours it takes to knit together a story, complete with captions so we know what's going on. You are educating the world about these wonderful and wild creatures. There's no other way we'd get such a close look at their actual lives. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💜🫶🙏🏼
This is so freaking cool, love these beautiful cats
My spirit animal and expert. Holds 2 world records BTW
Familiar sounds. Blue mountains are full of these beautiful animals.
I love how at around 2mins just a perfectly cut scream made me die laughing, my kinda humor
Fr☠☠
Thanks for this peek into the the mountain lion's life.
I remember a friend saying that a puma's mating call sounded like a crazy lady who just stubbed her toe lol
I’m a kid and at 11 at night I looked out of my window and there was a mountain lion next to my bush and I cried and I live in the mountains my mom said it was probably a bobcat and I searched a picture of it and it wasn’t even close to the dark face I saw it was definitely a mountain lion and it happened tonight😭
Its so cool and scary knowing these cats are out there roaming around. We had one hanging out on our land one winter thru summer. I saw its tracks in the snow. Then in summer, i was picking berries and i heard a loud panting sound, it was very hot. I could tell it was very close and trying to be quiet. I didnt feel like i was being stalked but i left anyway! It left one day when my Dad was using chainsaw to cut dead wood. Must've disturbed it cuz i saw it cross the path i was on and jump up the bank and over the fence. Quietly and effortlessly. My dog knew the cat was coming before I did cuz he got as close to the ground as he could. As soon as I asked him what was wrong, I i saw the cat. It was so very cool! ❤ We also have a bobcat that hangs out regularly. Many pics of it on trail cam. ❤
I am very, very glad I watched this a few weeks ago, so that when I was out backpacking yesterday morning and heard these EXACT sounds echoing up from the stream valley where my trail was about to descend, I knew to 180 it back to the trailhead and figure out a Plan B!!! Most terrifying and coolest moment I've ever had out on the trail.
Great capture of cougar mating behavior! Thanks for taking the time with all those cameras and uploading.
This may sound strange but to me, that is a beautiful love story in the animal kingdom.
Absolutely stunningly beautiful creatures!!! Thanks for sharing this incredible sight with us all.
Finally they found each other and they are happily playing. Sweety kitties.❤🙏✨🐈🐈😻🎇💖
4:13 love the playful chase scene!
Their calls are higher pitched than the tame Puma that lives with Sasha and Maria in Russia. Beautiful animals!!!
Love how you put in the timeline and the details of where they were. Great video. Thanks!
Thank you for posting this and adding captions. This is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen. Thanks again!
This is the first video document of puma courtship that I have seen. Remarkable good fortune, high quality and excellent editing. Well done and thank you.
Subscribed!
I've known for many years about the cat calls. I thought everyone who was out in their turf would know. Thing is, I've never actually been able to hear them. This whole vid was excellent. Thank you! One of our very important and beautiful predators🤎🙏🐾
they are beautiful may God protect them and keep them safe
I read that comments and likes were good for channels. 😂 A bunch of us thrill to your videos. It's as close to real wilderness as we get. Thank you, Robert, for your excellent work taking wildlife photos in the forest.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that.
What INCREDIBLE footage. Thank you so much for sharing; I do camera trapping and can only imagine how much time/energy went into placement of all those cameras. And to get the full story like that is just amazing!
What impressive animals. They sound like kittens.
ah! so they spend the next day together! that's interesting
Absolutely mesmerizing creatures, majestic and beautiful.
Such beautiful cats Thank you for sharing this wonderful vlog
Robert thank you for the excellent storyline of the cats mating ritual. I have a cats behind my house in Louisiana that I’ve heard caterwauling for past few years. The first year I was like WHAT IS THAT. Saw video of another cat and once you know there’s no mistaking it anymore. Excellent video content and production.
Wonderful videos of a Mountain Lion LOVEFEST ..!!!
Very interesting to see the whole drama play out from those different cameras! Thanks for sharing this!
They’re so beautiful!!❤
I heard this last 3 nights in a row. Every year I hear this in the spring.
Remarkable footage. Thanx.
Thank you!
@@humpermonkey just curious what sort of cameras you are using? they dont seem to be sensing the cameras at all in your footage.
Thank you so much. I live in LA area not far from Angeles Forest, but too old & disabled to get out camping anymore. Your video is a charming vicarious visit w/a favorite cat & the much loved mountains. 🥰
Great video! Thank you for sharing. My cat was sleeping next to me and something woke him. I wonder whatever could it have been? 😊
I get this outside my house. It's incredible how loud they can be.
Incredible thank you. Such an honor to capture this. Amazing thank you for teaching and sharing..🕊️
It’s my pleasure to share and thank you for the kind words.
Yes I heard this once..it.was bone- chilling. I live in a dense forest in the mountains. Lots of cougars here.
This is absolutely incredible footage. Thank You so much. Have subscribed. 🐾🇦🇺 Those Girl Mountain lions can sure be bossy. 🐾 Best of all, living free.
What a Treat! Beautiful Love Story! Robert, we are so spoiled from your Videos!!
Aww thank you for saying that.
Sounds like my cat when she wants food
Love our wild animal's. We live with them all.
And to think I was excited and thrilled when a fox 🦊showed up at my back door this morning! It's captured on my channel. This is a stunning video! What a beautiful job and a beautiful piece of property! 💖💗💓💞💕💜💓💗💜💓
Heard this same sound the other night. It was hot and we had a lot of windows open and heard a mountain lion calling out over and over again for about twenty minutes. In the mountains.
Thank you. I always wish I could see what they're doing...without being around them❤
❤OMG He Uses HER Call
The big kitty sure gets my dogs attention.
thats hilarious if u think about .. they just go around yelling "where you at?" til they find eachother and hook up
. *SO VERY PERFECT.*
You have captured amazing footage.....We live in central NY and have had mountain lions/puma on our 5 acres...Witnessed by many, along with our friends who own a beef farm, 2 miles up the road....We have since moved and there have been sightings, along with pictures taken, of mountain lion on the property of our friends, 13 miles just south of us, here in central NY... One ran about 18 to 20 feet in front of our car, in that same vicinity...All very exciting....Such magnificent creatures....
Beautiful animals! Sweethearts. 💕
We live in foothills of Colorado beside wilderness and my neighbors often think fox calls are from mountain lions. Yours is a great example of cat calls. It’s easy to confuse them for fox but I can hear the difference - cats being cat-like. This is beautiful, I’m so jealous of your camera set up!
I love all cats, big and small.
Wow amazing, and thank you!
That was amazing! Thanks for sharing! Im gonna have to see what else you have.
Aaaww, love is in the air ❤
What amazing precious creatures.
Outstanding video! How wonderful for all of us that you have taped and edited this courtship! Thank you!
I live in the Ohio valley and just heard this!!! My husband just got home from an evening shift an hour ago and said, “come outside! There’s something barking or screaming in the woods behind the house and our coonhound is going crazy and cowering in its house.” We listened to this exact sound for about 10 minutes. We have NEVER heard this sound until tonight. My husband has spent his whole life hunting and spending time in the woods and never heard this. We have been so spooked and worried since I found this video. What we heard and this video are a perfect match.
Beautiful work ! Congratulations from France .
I hope they bring their babies back to the cameras! Love your videos!
Oh wow. Amazing footage. Sure took them a long time to find each other.
Have heard this several times in north Central Pennsylvania,,,,,, although our state game commission says they don't exist. The calling and sightings usually happen in the last fall.
An incredibly powerful predator with a surprisingly high pitch sound…
I was watching this and my 2 sleeping golden retrievers got all freaky!
Fascinating sounds coming from such a large animal.
Healthy looking cats - Great Video
Wow, how exciting, amazing you just happened to have cameras in perfect spot, that was definitely rare
That was amazing! Thank you for sharing…