A Black Panther is not a real animal species.

[Space Cats]

It's just a colour variant of a large cat. You can have Black Panther Cougars, Black Panther Leopards, etc. But there's no such big cat simply referred to as a Black Panther. I bring this up because of a show I've been watching that is quite interesting.
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[Silvador]

Who ever said it was?
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[Artyom Derison]

What show is this?
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[Silvador]

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I can't see some of them unfortunately, but what species of big cat are each of them? The middle and last are Jaguars I think, not sure about the second from the top. It might also be a jaguar.
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*F***** Double Post!!*
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[Silvador]

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Apparently they're jaguars in Latin America and in Asia and Africa they're Leopards. It's really just Melanism, like Albinism only on the opposite of the spectrum. There are wolves with the same thing and squirrels too, which sounds pretty cute to me. I think it goes something like Black Panther Jaguar or White Panther Leopard, or simply a Panther Cougar if it is of a normal colour, considering Panther is just a big cat. You could also just say Melanistic Jaguar and Albino Leopard without the panther. So Black Panther just says "black color variant of a big cat" without distinguishing it's actual species.
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[Silvador]

Well please, tell me the difference because I don't think I can fathom going on another day without being able to accurately describe what specific species my ficticious anthropomorphic representation of myself on the internet is.
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STOP TRYING TO CRUSH MY DREAMS, SIR!




It's just because I'm white isn't it?
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[Mayfield]

Actually, I did a little googling, and there is no such thing as a straight up panther. *shrugs* A certain big cat is considered a panther in some places but not in others. In Africa and Asia, leopards are also called panthers. In South and Central America, it's the jaguar. In North America it's the cougar/mountain lion. So where I am, my character could be considered a panther.

And Wolfbane, lol.
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[Space Cats]

I guess the people who study big cats would look for features other than their coats, Jaguars would have a larger build than a Leopard and also have rounder heads and shorter legs than them and stuff like that.
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[Artyom Derison]

That's what I was thinking Spacey. Would a Puma fall into something like this since there not a species of cat??
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I think Puma is a genus as well that refers to cougars and other old world wild cats.
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[Tearlach]

There is such a thing as a Black Cougar. I know because I have seen 'Desperate House wives'.
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I found a picture of a very rare black and white panther.

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[Shadow_Twisted]

[quote="Space Cats"]It's really just Melanism, like Albinism only on the opposite of the spectrum. There are wolves with the same thing and squirrels too, which sounds pretty cute to me.[quote]

I've seen black squirrels before in the northwestern part of central Pennsylvania, so perhaps they had this melanism.

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[quote="Shadow_Twisted"][quote="Space Cats"]It's really just Melanism, like Albinism only on the opposite of the spectrum. There are wolves with the same thing and squirrels too, which sounds pretty cute to me.

[Arcanus]

umm not to go off topic or anything, but why is the quote thing screwed up??
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[Rune174]

So fur is mostly based on environment, weather, and season in short.
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there is no Black Panther :O wow im shocked.

Wait...is there a Pink Panther?
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