Why don’t mountain lions have manes?
Moment Of Um
Lemonada Media
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
When you picture a lion, what do you see? If you thought of a big fluffy mane, you’re not alone! But how come mountain lions don’t have manes? We asked conservation biologist Imogene Cancellare to help us find the answer.
Got a question that’s really hairy? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll make finding the answer our mane focus.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um. |
| 0:05.5 | Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um. |
| 0:07.7 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Marley Matthews, the Mountain Lion. |
| 0:15.8 | Um. |
| 0:18.0 | Um. |
| 0:28.1 | I love to wrestle and swim and chase my brothers and sisters and nap in the sun and drink slurpees. |
| 0:38.8 | Okay, I've never actually had a slurpee, but I'm pretty sure I would love it. I'm two and three quarters years old, which means I'm almost three, which means I'm pretty sure I would love it. I'm two and three quarters years old, |
| 0:40.3 | which means I'm almost three, |
| 0:43.2 | which means I'm basically an adult. |
| 0:44.3 | Oh yeah! |
| 0:47.0 | Once I'm an adult mountain lion, |
| 0:51.7 | I'm going to get my gorgeous, luscious, lustrous, listerous lions mane. |
| 0:58.0 | You know, that thick, beautiful fur that grows on a lion's head and neck? Bring on the hair metal. |
| 1:00.0 | Hmm, I wonder what color my name is going to be. |
| 1:04.0 | Here, let me just look it up online. |
| 1:07.0 | Wait, hang on. |
| 1:10.0 | This article says mountain lions don't grow mains. |
| 1:14.0 | Are you kidding me right, meow? |
| 1:16.2 | Why not? |
| 1:18.3 | Actually, my friend Ollie was wondering the same thing, |
| 1:21.5 | so we asked a scientist who knows a lot about this. |
| 1:29.3 | That is an awesome question. My name is Imaging Cancelari, and I am a conservation biologist, and I focus mostly on Big |
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