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What is a Catamount? And why it is the University of Vermont’s mascot

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Catamount is another name for the American panther, cougar, mountain lion, painter and puma.

The last confirmed sighting of a catamount in Vermont was on Thanksgiving Day, 1881 .

Catamounts were hunted out of existence in Eastern North America , but there are some hold-outs in Florida .