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Do you mean something like, "Why is Felis concolor called "puma," "cougar" "painter," "catamount," "American lion" and so on?

Well, people make up their own names for the animals they see, not realizing or caring that they may have been given other names by somebody else. That's why we have Linnean taxonomy or scientific names.

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