Hahahahahaha

 

All panthers are black at night

 

Thank you for that potentially life saving information.
I’ll make sure to carry my big game rifffle the next time I’m in the south Arkansas wilderness.

 

I am telling you there ARE big black cats in South Arkansas! PERIOD!

Hell yeah there are! First time doublin down on the green gummies?

 

That made me snort my coffee.

 

I don’t know that they’d qualify as panthers per se, but there is an abundance of cougars in all colors and sizes down here.

 

 

There ARE BLACK PANTHERS in Arkansas.

there has never been a documented case of a black / melanistic cougar

right ?

Feb 3, 2022 — While melanism is fairly common in the feline family, there is not a single validated record of a black mountain lion to have ever existed.

All of the large black cats you see on television and in zoos are black (melanistic) jaguars and leopards. They are not a separate species but a variant of those cats that show an overload of black pigment in sort of reverse fashion of albinism.

Black Panthers Don't Exist, But Black Longtails Do (Pt. 1) - Higher Calling Wildlife

Do black panthers exist in the United States?Some experts say no. If not, what is the mysterious black longtail?

highercalling.net

now, there ARE really dark jaguars that might have once came up through TX/NM/AZ ..........

 

there has never been a documented case of a black / melanistic cougar

right ?

Feb 3, 2022 — While melanism is fairly common in the feline family, there is not a single validated record of a black mountain lion to have ever existed.

All of the large black cats you see on television and in zoos are black (melanistic) jaguars and leopards. They are not a separate species but a variant of those cats that show an overload of black pigment in sort of reverse fashion of albinism.

Black Panthers Don't Exist, But Black Longtails Do (Pt. 1) - Higher Calling Wildlife

Do black panthers exist in the United States?Some experts say no. If not, what is the mysterious black longtail?

highercalling.net

now, there ARE really dark jaguars that might have once came up through TX/NM/AZ ..........

Don’t be a carp. You’re better than this……

 

i said no way for years but last year a guy at church showed me a trail cam pic of what sure looked liked a black panther in Hot Spring County.

 

Inquisitive minds want to see it

 

Welcome to the forum! Excellent first post! Real conversation starter. It’s very apparent than you are obviously a very experienced and skilled outdoorsman, having spent many 1000’s of hours in the untamed wilderness of S Ark. I’ve heard that the infamous panthers aren’t the only things to be returning to their once former glory. Pray tell, how many black bears have you seen down that way? I’ve heard they’re really starting to get thick!

 

Was a Great Year..WPS Razorbacks!! Whoo Hoo!!
O is this about Panthers ? Lol...
Lots on the Field After the Game..
They didn't growem..Like that when I was Young..lol

 

Lots of Panthers and Cougars in The Home..
They all look good at closing Time..
Don't know about Black..😆

 

Don't know about Black..😆

At my age ya can’t be picky!!

 

Do you have any kin around Mountain Home?

 

Do you have any kin around Stone County?

FIxed it fir ya..😆

 

I thought those black panthers that marched across the bridge in Selma, Alabama, was WAAAYYY over documented.

 

I think I have about 18 game cameras out, now. With deer season about to kick off, how many game cameras you figure are out across the state - everyone of them unable to take a picture of a black mountain lion or squatch

 

Let’s go ahead and expand that a little. Let’s go ahead and say how many game cameras are out in all lower 48 states, and not just this deer season, since game cameras were invented. And let’s just go ahead and throw in every hunter to ever hunt the US, especially the last 200 years of hound hunters in places like Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Idaho, California, etc. And not a single one of those lazy bass turds manage to put in enough wilderness experience effort to ever manage to even find a dead one……….

 

He had me at Bodidly.

 

I have told this before but am going to again. My dad grew up North of Clarksville during the depression. They hunted and trapped all fall and winter. It was a way to get money for a kid in the country then and they had little.
He trapped and treed some wildcats that he described as looking like a bobcat but having a tail almost as long as the body. The local furbuyer called them reeser cats. They brought the same price as a bobcat. My dad was as educated and well read as anyone I know. He said it wasn't an oscelot. He never heard of them mentioned or documented in a book ever. He always wondered if they were indigenous to that area and were killed off before they were documented. He said he and his brothers killed and sold several of them in the 30s.

 

I believe there are large black long tailed cats living in the south including Arkansas. Whether they are escaped pets I don't know.

 

Tal’s been dead what, two years? And we’re still arguing about the existence of dark, hairy, mythical beasts.

 

I tried telling y’all this pot legalization and pot shops was a bad idea.

 

Another uniformed post by a member whose yet to see a black panther. Swing just north of the state line there and grab some brownies. You might see a black panther, or maybe just squatch saddlin up a unicorn.

Either way, it won't matter

 

I have seen video of 2 black panthers on the news. One was on Memphis news of one in a field in north MS taken from I55. The other was on New Orleans news taken near Baton Rouge. The video was good and clear on both.
They weren't house cats. Escaped pets? The footage wasn't from a zoo.

 

Australian Aboriginal holding feral house cat.

 

Australian Aboriginal holding feral house cat.

This is more disinformation about the black Panthers. That man’s name is Lee Roy Jenkins and he lives in Hermitage right in the middle of the south Arkansas wildernesses. He killed that young black panther with his bare hands when it broke into his house while he was in the shower.

 

Maybe at least some of these sightings are actually jaguarundis. According to this article, although their range is Central and South America, they're "...occasionally spotted in the southern areas of the United States as well."

Small Cat Spotlight: Jaguarundi | Panthera

Panthera is devoted to preserving the 40 species of wild cats and their critical role in the world's ecosystems — securing their future and ours.

panthera.org

 

The few "trail cam" pictures I've seen of this elusive creature have all been badly photoshopped.

My line of thinking is the same of @SwampCat : With all these trail cams out now, how have we not got a single, non-photoshopped, picture of one?

That dog just won't hunt.

 

I can tell y’all about another mystical creature from the wilds of S Arkansas. I’m sure a few of you may have even encountered a specimen or two yourself. The wary old ShrinkingAntlered Bucks of the Southern bushveld. They are one of Mothers Natures most unusual species. They have a unique attribute that sets them apart from all other horned or antlered game. Immediately upon death, their antlers almost instantly begin to shrink to somewhere between 40-60% of the size they were just a few moments before when you squeezed the trigger. A solid 140” buck will shrink down to 110” buck almost instantly! And before any of you start arguing with me, I KNOW they exist, because I’ve seen it with MY OWN EYES!! And as we all know, your eyes NEVER lie to you……..

 

I am the Dr. James C. Kroll of this particular species of deer. A true lifetime dedicated to blastin' em.

 

What a way to get replies.

 

I don't use drugs. Seeing a Black panther or large black cat the size of a mountain lion or leapord on 2 seperate news telecasts doesn't make me uninformed. Me telling you means I was informed and you weren't. They may be escaped pets but I don't write off things as a possibility just because the game agency says something. There are Black squirrels, coyotes, deer, raccoons. Why can't there be a black panther? People claim to see them occasionally all over the south.