OT: I’m trying to get an idea of how stupid Florida people are, or are we all?
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Well, we used to fly into SW Florida Regional Airport (Ft. Myers/Cape Coral) every summer for our vacation. They had signs warning about panthers on the roads around the airport. Panthers are native to that
area.
That has been my third favorite response on Nextdoor, behind #2 Turtle, and my personal favorite “Pelican, they are pretty common since we are a coastal town.”
What's wrong with that, so she has a thing for Big Bob Cats... I get the same type of deal on my phone as I am a fan of Big Buffalo Wings.
This entire thread reads like a group text I have. Occasionally, when everyone else has gone to sleep, 2 guys are still up drinking and having a one on one conversation about nonsense... and I love it.
The joke “Florida man” does exist for a reason… and I’m a Florida man.
But the guy in the next door text below who suggested a wampus cat is correct. Clearest case of a wampus cat I’ve ever seen**
It's not isolated to FL. Every 6-8 months a pic like that will show up in my facebook feed. "Check out this trail cam picture of a panther crossing an oak flat in Eupora. Less than a mile from the elementary school playground. Hide your kids."
If it's bigger than Garfield, 99% of the public will call it a mountain lion/panther/cougar/siberian tiger.
If it's bigger than Garfield, 99% of the public will call it a mountain lion/panther/cougar/siberian tiger.
With all the witty comments you make, I would think you were pretty smart except for the whole fleeing a place with terrible weather to voluntarily live in a place that has snow in May. If we could get you access to like, a farmer's almanac or something so you could figure out the weather somewhere before you moved there, there's not telling how far you could go.
In Florida man's defense, that does look to be a big *** bobcat to me, to the extent there is enough in the picture to give a sense of scale. And there is at least something called the Florida Panther, even if it's not in the panhandle. Other than just looking like a bobcat, the tail is too short and it looks like the snout is too stubby to be a cougar.
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In my defense, before moving here from Texas, I watched the weather (Spanish speaking weather for obvious reasons) incessantly. And based on what I saw on the maps, I convinced myself this part of the country was just going to rain beautiful, thin, large breasted women. Figured it was worth the risk.
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It's there, but #3 is missing. And the investigation should start with Cynthia. She's obviously got a thing for 3rd legs.
I would assume if/when a cougar makes it into the panhandle it will be more likely to be a mountain lion that roamed from Louisiana across Mississippi and Bama into the panhandle than a Florida Panther. No real reason for that guess except I would assume it would be easier for a cougar to make it's way through Mississippi and Alabama while staying in relatively undeveloped areas than to make its way up Florida.
They are virtually the same but florida panthers have I guess been isolated enough to be their own species (or maybe just subspecies). I don't think a normal person could tell them apart just by looking at them side by side.
BTW Cochise. It’s a shame your comment in the OOB thread was not seen by anyone because it was in an OOB thread. I busted out laughing. It did not get the love it deserved.
I went down a cougar rabbit hole a while back (bet cougars do that too).
Cougar is the most common and proper name, but the animal has I think more names than any other animal in the world. Mainly as a result of it's incredible range from Canada all the way to the deep south of South America.
The Florida panther is an isolated population of North American Cougars that was once considered a subspecies, but I think genetic testing has dispelled the notion of any unique traits. They haven't been isolated long enough.
Common names in North America are Cougar, Panther (a complete misnomer, different family of felines altogether), Mountain Lion, Puma, and Catamount (Cat of the Mountains). All the same animal.
Full respect to you, but it's definitely a bobcat. A big one, but that's what their tails look like.
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