The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names!

What do the cougar, puma and mountain lion have in common? They're all the same animal. This large cat has many different names. Although, "mountain lion" is technically not an apt description because it lives in regions outside of the mountains too.

Other names include "catamount," "panther," "screamer," and "painter." Painter is probably an accented pronunciation of "panther." The cougar holds the Guinness world record for most number of names and has over 40 in English alone. This is probably due to the fact that it lives in so many different places in North and South America.

The name "cougar" likely comes from archaic Portuguese. The first recorded use of "puma" was in 1777. It came from Spanish and before that the Peruvian language Quechua. It means "powerful." Puma is also the most popular name across different languages.

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