Sunday 21 May 2017

PHOTO: “Black panther" captured on TX game camera? (via Richard West)

“Black panther” reports are common in the American South.


Accounts of mysterious black cats crossing the road in front of motorists or seen by hunters are frequent but rarely backed up by photography.


In my 25 years of wildlife journalism I have learned most people assume the animals they are seeing are black (melanistic) cougars. The problem is cougars do not produce melanistic offspring and there has never in history been one documented by science.


So, what are people seeing?

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