When I was growing up, my family used to take a lot of vagabond holidays, loading up the VW bus (and later the RV).
We camped very remotely in the Cascades, the Rockies, the Blues etc.
My stepdad taught us about cougars and what they sound like, he always told us that if we hear a baby crying, or a woman screaming sound, chances are pretty good that the cat was probably not very close and that those particular cries have two purposes.
One purpose was for the cougars to 'hook' up in breeding season,or for the male to announce their pressense to the resident female, and the other was to warn off any would be interlopers from their range.
He said in both cases, the cats are generally too preocccupied with other cats to worry, or even care about humans.
The time to worry is when you hear the low, growling, chuffing roars, because bass sounds, even though they carry well, are generally out of a human's range of hearing unless they are close.
We camped very remotely in the Cascades, the Rockies, the Blues etc.
My stepdad taught us about cougars and what they sound like, he always told us that if we hear a baby crying, or a woman screaming sound, chances are pretty good that the cat was probably not very close and that those particular cries have two purposes.
One purpose was for the cougars to 'hook' up in breeding season,or for the male to announce their pressense to the resident female, and the other was to warn off any would be interlopers from their range.
He said in both cases, the cats are generally too preocccupied with other cats to worry, or even care about humans.
The time to worry is when you hear the low, growling, chuffing roars, because bass sounds, even though they carry well, are generally out of a human's range of hearing unless they are close.
