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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Don't trust too much to his friendship, for it might be the worse for you; lions seldom fondle any thing without hurting it." "Was it a lion?" asked Lucien. "Yes," I answered; "but an American lion, or cougar, known by savants as the Felis puma." "How I should like to have seen it! Had it a mane?" "No; the puma is without one."
But there is only one true representative of the genus Felis, and that is the animal in question. This has received many trivial appellations. Among Anglo-American hunters, it is called the panther in their patois, "painter." The absence of stripes, such as those of the tiger or spots, as upon the leopard or rosettes, as upon the jaguar, have suggested the name of the naturalists, concolor.
"A fine animal," said Psmith, adjusting his eyeglass. "To which particular family of the Felis Domestica does that belong? In colour it resembles a Neapolitan ice more than anything." Mr. Jarvis's manner became unfriendly. "Say, what do youse want? That's straight ain't it? If youse want to buy a boid or a snake why don't youse say so?" "I stand corrected," said Psmith.
Another day he examined John's wound tenderly, and then sat down by him with his beautiful moss-agate eyes emitting dangerous little sparkles. "It's a bad bite," he said, "the bite of a cat felis concolor. They are a bad family these cats the scratchers." He was holding John's wounded hand. "So you've had your fight with a felis. A single encounter ought to be enough!
Of course this kind of perfumery is only adapted for those who live in tents and in the open air, but it is considered by the ladies to have a peculiar attraction for the other sex, as valerian is said to ensnare the genus felis.
No other cat has so extensive a range as Felis concolor and its close allies, variously known as puma, cougar and mountain lion, which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from latitude fifty-five or sixty north, to the extreme southern end of the continent. As far as is known, it is a recent development, for no very similar remains appear previous to post-tertiary deposits.
It may be possible that the lack of horns makes it more difficult to break a zebra's neck because of the corresponding lack of leverage when its head hits the ground sidewise; the instances I have noted may have been those in which the lion's spring landed too far back to throw the victim properly; or perhaps they were merely examples of the great variability in the habits of felis leo.
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