Black Panther Sighting

[Timber Cruiser]

10 pages in and I’m willing to throw out a wild guess…

Puma Concolor = Panther? A panther is a Puma?

Mountain lion, etc. yes. And there are no black ones.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

There is a small brood of squirrels in a part of Henry County (where I am originally from) that have solid white tails. I have a family member that knew a gentleman from church that did falconry back home, and always apparently had a healthy population of the white tailed squirrels that the falcon would bring back.

I’ve seen solid white squirrels many times in the southeast. Cobb Co. has a lot of them.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

So he didn't see a panther, he seen a Jaguar.

Doubtful but stranger things have happened.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

How can you be so adamantly positive ? We don’t even know what type of cat this was. Show us the proof that is impossible for a cat to have “black hair”.

The only native big cat to the southeast US is puma concolor and they don’t occur in black. That is my point. He misnomered what he thinks he saw. While it is possible he saw a black jaguar, a black jaguarundi or a black leopard, it is highly unlikely. These tales derive from hunt camps and campfires from decades ago and there is almost always an explanation for them. And it’s never a black puma concolor.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

Are either native to Georgia?

No

 

[buellbrewer]

No there is not. Not black.

correct. not black. But a panther. Should have disclosed that.

 

[Timber Cruiser]

correct. not black. But a panther. Should have disclosed that.

I’d love to see one in the North Georgia mountains one day. I’ve only seen one in my life and it was in NC. I have a crappy pic of it somewhere from one of those old school disposable cameras. Still hoping elk will ease on down from the Smokies too. I’d love to hear one bugle in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

 

[greg vess]

Posting this on a public forum I was well aware beforehand that there would be adamant deniers. I never bought into the whole black panther thing until yesterday at 11:15 AM. I mean shoot, we hardly know what's in our oceans. I don't really buy anything the government is going to say about whether a black cat exists in the wild or not. We barely trust our government as it is, so why are we suddenly sticking to our guns about the government's assessment of big cats in this state?

My post earlier telling about the population of cougar/ panthers was right out of a article( not verbatim ) I get on my phone. I look up a lot of articles about game and wildlife and since then it's automatically thrown articles into my Google News page. Also my best friend and Big canoe saw one in his backyard not a black one mind you but a regular cougar.

You make a valid point about not knowing what's out there. I mean look at all the genetic anomalies that happens regularly. Just like the article I posted about the solid black buck that an older man took. I never even thought about a black deer but there was plane as day. My father used to tell me stories about black panthers all the time when I was a kid. My father was raised a couple miles off of Blue Ridge parkway. There are too many thousands of acres to talk about that does not allow public Access hunting. You know there's got to be all kinds of animals out there with non-typical features.