re: Black panthers...let's put this to rest

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I have a pic of a big black cat on a trail camera

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You absolutely do not have one of these.

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yattan

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You're wrong.

Less than 5% of jaguars are melanistic. There's one permanent resident jaguar in AZ, and the extremely rare visitor to the states you mentioned. All of which are spotted. A black one has never been documented. They're very rare even in South America. Rednecks somehow see black ones on every hunting lease throughout the southeast, yet never a spotted one. You do the math. People just want to believe they saw a black panther, or are lying outright.

Not wrong. Well, I have seen one and I do not care what it is or who believes me. And I have a witness who has seen probably the same one at a different time, near the same place. My grandfather used to tell me stories about hunting big cats in Morehouse Parish where he was born. He called them panthers. I would sit on his lap and help him drink his home made wine. I remember him saying that one night he was hunting and he looked up to a low branch and a panther was staring at him. I would get him to make a panther scream. I also asked him how do you catch a rino. He said you make a scarecrow, put a rope around it, find a cedar tree, when the rino charges you pull the scarecrow up and rino would stick his horn in the tree. I took another sip on that one. I have a copy of a letter from his aunt who lived to be 96 years old, recalling one day that a "panther" was treed in their backyard. A good book to read is "Song of the Bartholomew". Recounts life along Bayou Bartholomew in N Louisiana in the early days. It talks about "panthers". In Florida, they refer to big cats in the swamps as panthers. But,so what.

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I do not care what it is or who believes me

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Your actions say otherwise.

How about that picture of the black panther?

First of all: Post the picture.

Second: if you have actual evidence of a black color phase Felinea here in the southeast United States, then it will change the entire biological balance of our ecosystem. This is information that you can't hold back. As a forester, naturalist, and amateur biologist, I think you owe it to the historical record to allow your data to be examined.

I know your modest, and don't want any publicity. But this is big news! Please reconsider.

And, meanwhile, post that picture.

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Your pathetic attempt at a counter arguement is noted. The existence or nonexistence of extraterrestrial life is irrelevant to this conversation.

There aren't thousands of trail cameras monitoring other worlds.

There are, however, thousands upon thousands of trail cameras in the Louisiana woods, and no person to date has produced an image of a "black panther".

BTW, aren't you the stooge who babbled on about commom names being irrelevant earlier? Why the hell are you talking about "panthers" in Florida, which are jist a subspecies of the mountain lion? Oh sorry, Felis concolor since you care for scientific names.

If scientific names are the only thing that matters, then what is the name of your specimen on camera?

Still waiting on that picture