Talk:Mac OS X 10.8/@comment-69.141.112.207-20150804154300/@comment-24886041-20150804212315

Only sort-of; pumas, (some) panthers and cougars (mountain lions) and jaguarundi are all the same species, but refer to local variants. What makes it more confusing however is that "puma" is also the genus that contains all of these animals, and due to that, cougars/mt lions are also often called pumas.

So Apple could have gone with Puma, Mountain Lion and Panther (Florida), as none of these names are used in overlapping ranges; but adding Cougar would be a problem, as that name is used in place of all three Puma variants. Interestingly, "P. concolor holds the Guinness record for the animal with the greatest number of names, over 40 in English alone."

So Apple could have just stuck with Puma variants for 10.0 through 10.7 and had plenty of room to spare.