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Re: What's a Catamount?
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Tom Lastnamewithmanyletters <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Lastnamewithmanyletters <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 1 Dec 1994 20:22:47 -0500
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>         I believe I have a pretty good idea what the University of Vermont
>  mascot "Catamount" is:
> A mythical cat-like creature in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
 
 
A "catamount" is  short for "catamountain" and refers to a puma, couger
or lynx. I've not heard a catamount referred to as a mythical creature. I've
always assumed that the reference that was being made by UV was to the
abovemnoted definition.
 
--->Tom Brudzinski, RPI '68

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