Agreed, to an extint. Jaguars aka "Tiger cats" roamed all the way to Louisiana and Oklahoma prior to the turn of the 20th Century. Since the black phase is common in jaguars, it would be logical to assume that some were this color. To think that there are still "black panthers" behind every tree is ignorant.
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OK, that's what I saw when I was a kid, I was under a tree, late afternoon and it was in full sunlight working along a fence line. I was upwind and the cat was upwind of some cattle in a pasture.
I clearly remember that long tail flicking back and forth as it moved along.
As soon as it was out of sight I ran like hell to get home. That was in the early fiftys,and I was around 10 or 11 years old
