North American Black Panther confirmed!!!!!

[msinc]

So that cat dragged off the deer?

Nope...the cat devoured it right there!!!!

 

[msinc]

Since cats have 9 lives, gonna need at least a 10 rd mag!

Now this is the most sensible thing I have heard all week!!!!!!

 

[BC38]

Yeah, we had one of those panthers - a slightly shorter haired specimen - that hung around our place for over 19 years...

 

[msinc]

Sounds like it's time for a "best gun for panther" thread!

Rastoff pretty much summed it up when he suggested: "Pack heavy people!!!!"

Thanks for all the likes on this thread folks...glad we could at least have a little fun!!

 

[Alk8944]

You can call it a Panther all you want, doesn't change the fact it is a perfectly normal Black American Short Hair. One of my house cats is every bit as big, and Black too!

 

[Lt JL]

When called by a panther,
don't anther.

Ogden Nash

 

[woodsltc]

The OP's photos appear to show the rare sub-species of the American Cougar..."Puma Eldridge Cleaveris".

Don

 

[yaktamer]

Clearly a chupacabra.

 

[TX-Dennis]

My panther is a calico. Strange, that.

 

[TX-Dennis]

About twenty years ago I came upon a mountain lion while climbing a small hill. We were just a few feet apart, basically face to face. Experts say you should never run from a mountain lion since he will think you are prey. Experts have never almost soiled their pants while contemplating being eaten alive. I ran. In those days I was faster than I am today, but not fast enough to outrun a mountain lion.

Fortunately the cat ran the other way. I guess he wasn't hungry. I still wonder how I managed to get that close without spooking the cat. Maybe it was deaf or had lost its sense of smell . . . or both?

 

[mjr]

You can call it a Panther all you want, doesn't change the fact it is a perfectly normal Black American Short Hair. One of my house cats is every bit as big, and Black too!

Aw, you probably also claim that guy at the mall isn't really Santa Claus.

 

[msinc]

You can call it a Panther all you want, doesn't change the fact it is a perfectly normal Black American Short Hair. One of my house cats is every bit as big, and Black too!

Do you try to ruin everybody's fun???? You have to work for the DMV don't you?????
40,000 people a year report seeing an animal that scientifically cannot exist, we try to have a little fun with it and you gotta get on here and hose this thread down!!!!!!! Just look at all the likes...likes equals fun.

 

[BearBio]

As a biologist, I am lucky in having seen at least a 1/2 dozen (maybe a dozen) wild lions (That's a lot, even for a field biologist) Compare that with 2 dozen wild grizz in almost 20 years of professional work.

BTW: We had a MONSTER Siamese while growing up that I would put up against a mulie any day! He used to capture live pocket gophers and bring them into the house (Gophers are MEAN!)

 

[jlrhiner]

You can call it a Panther all you want, doesn't change the fact it is a perfectly normal Black American Short Hair. One of my house cats is every bit as big, and Black too!

Jeez, you probably don't believe in Bigfoot either

 

[rog8732]

Aw, you probably also claim that guy at the mall isn't really Santa Claus.

Well HA !! Obviously he,(Mr Claus) is real. Just last Christmas I visited two malls here in town and THEN drove 50 miles to another, and sure enough; there he was in all three places !

Only a REAL Santa could travel around that fast !! (Pretty sure I saw some Rudolf "pellets" just outside the mall entrance too).

 

[amazingflapjack]

About twenty years ago I came upon a mountain lion while climbing a small hill. We were just a few feet apart, basically face to face. Experts say you should never run from a mountain lion since he will think you are prey. Experts have never almost soiled their pants while contemplating being eaten alive. I ran. In those days I was faster than I am today, but not fast enough to outrun a mountain lion.

Fortunately the cat ran the other way. I guess he wasn't hungry. I still wonder how I managed to get that close without spooking the cat. Maybe it was deaf or had lost its sense of smell . . . or both?

NO! he hadn't lost his sense of smell, and that's why he ran the other way!

 

[1morethan8]

We've been seeing large cats in Tennessee for many years... but until they can be "confirmed" by biologist or TWRA.. they don't exist.
They are now confirmed!

Video: More Tennessee cougar encounters, DNA tests confirm a female | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WTVC

 

[LVSteve]

It cracks me up when allegedly qualified biologists tell me that a critter I see every summer in my back yard doesn't live here. The beast in question is none other than the humble American Robin. Yep, one of the high and mighty Audubon types told me they didn't live in the Vegas Valley. Tell that to the 15 that were fighting for birdbath space a couple of years ago.

It is a common human conceit to believe that we know all there is to be known these days. If that's true, explain why the ranges of at least two species of dragonfly have been extended to Nevada based on my photos.

 

[1morethan8]

Now that they have confirmed the cougar in Tennessee...
wonder how long it will take to confirm the panther!?

 

[walkinghorse]

Not animal related but still nature; the reports that only a certified weather spotter, NWS, or a TV weatherperson, can say what an official tornado is?