Another black panther thread. With video this time

[Man]

Guys I did a triangulation on the distance of the cat against the height of the cars ......and if my numbers are correct this cat is like 20ft long and 6ft tall. This is no ordinary house cat!!

[Gary Roberson]

Looks and acts just like a big old house cat to me.
Adios,
Gary

[Tx_Wader]

this cat is like 20ft long and 6ft tall.

Well if your numbers are correct; I wouldn't want any part of it even if it was yellow, tan, green or red.

[kcnatural]

house cat

[Coon]

Meeeeow!! Depth perception folks....use it!

^^^^^^^^

[double bogey]

Looks awful comfortable near civilization in daylight to be a wild cat of any kind.

[AZST_bowhunter]

There's been "no such thing" said about a few species until there was.

Yea, like bigfoot!!

[AZST_bowhunter]

I don't know what it was, but it was a large dark colored cat

[DXT Steve]

Tell you what, nay sayers believe what you want, I’ve seen one in person near Fredericksburg, Texas!!

[Shane]

It's a dark grey or black cat that moves and acts exactly like a house cat standing in grass that is 6-8" tall that is hitting him in the belly, so it's clearly the size of a good sized tom cat. Add that to the fact that no one has ever documented the existence of a melanistic mountain lion, and you are forced to come to an obvious conclusion.........

It's a black panther.

[Chance Love]

It's a dark grey or black cat that moves and acts exactly like a house cat standing in grass that is 6-8" tall that is hitting him in the belly, so it's clearly the size of a good sized tom cat. Add that to the fact that no one has ever documented the existence of a melanistic mountain lion, and you are forced to come to an obvious conclusion.........

It's a black panther.

Always speaking the truth!

And I just gotta ask (as I always do in these unicor....I mean black panther threads)...why are there always so many "sightings" of black panthers and hardly ever a brown one?

[BitBackShot]

When people say panther we just assume they are talking about a leopard. panther is just a color "phase" in large cats. there are black mt. lions and calling them panthers is not totally off the mark.

Actually "panther" has nothing to do with color. It has to do with the genus "panthera" which includes lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars. They are the only big cats that can roar (cougars cannot).

A black panther is, by definition, the black color phase of the jaguar or leopard. There is no such thing as a black cougar (it doesn't exist).

Those of you convinced that there are "black panthers" roaming all over the woods of the US, please just consider the numbers.

Jaguars used to have a home range that included the majority of the Southern United States, but they have since been extirpated from the area. Only very recently has a confirmed visit from a wild jaguar been documented, I believe in Southern Arizona where the cat has been known to cross back and force between Arizona and Mexico. There has been 1 jaguar proven to roam the United States wildly in the last 50 or so years. 1.

The melanistic phase of the jaguar is quite rare. I believe it occurs is 1-in-5000 animals.

There are no leopards in the United States outside of zoos.

There is no melanistic phase of the cougar.

Do the math. You're not seeing black panthers.

[Blank]

Field lion, or ditch tiger - call it what you want. If its off the front porch its a target!!!

[Vap]

I'll be on the lookout ��

[Outlaw_6]

That's obviously a saber tooth tiger.