NOTHING ruins the credibility of a hunter faster than a black "panther" spotting.
Yep.....lots of them “seen “ around here where even regular mountain lions are few and far between.... But...
On two occasions, oddly enough, within a months time, I saw a bobcat turn from regular coloration to black and then back to regular coloration. Obviously it had to do with the light.
Both times, though it couldn’t have been the same cat because of the distance between sighting places, it was full daylight but the cat moved from sunlight to shadow AND turned its body. The tips of the hairs are black on a bobcat and I’m sure that had something to do with it.
I’ve only seen one mountain lion up close but never examined the hair tips.
In 77 years here in Young County I’ve seen exactly three lions. None were black.
