This animal has sometimes been regarded as forming different species from their normally colored relatives. The name of the animal is often limited to the black variants of the species, but is also used to refer to those which are normally colored for the species, or to white color variants like white panthers. This animal is a common term for a white specimen of several species of cat. A white panther may therefore be a white cougar, white jaguar or white leopard. Of these, white leopards appear to be more common, although still very rare. White panthers may be the result of albinism, leucism or the chinchilla mutation. It is a common misconception that panther means a melanistic individual.
The Florida panther is a critically endangered representative of cougar that lives in the low tides, palm forests and swamps of southern Florida in the United States. Its current taxonomic status is unresolved. The Florida Panther is also known as the cougar, mountain lion, puma, and catamount. Males weigh about 150 pounds and live within a range that includes the Big Cypress This population, the only unequivocal cougar representative in the eastern United States, currently occupies only 5% of its historic range. The number of living Florida panthers is estimated to be between 80 and 100.
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A black panther is a large black cat. Black panthers are color variants of several species of larger cat. Wild black panthers in Latin America are black jaguars, in Asia and Africa they are black leopards, and in North America reported black panthers may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars, or smaller cats. These animals are also reported as cryptids in areas as the United Kingdom and Australia, and for these the species is not known. Black panthers may be black jaguars, or black leopards.
A black panther is a large black cat. Black panthers are color variants of several species of larger cat. Wild black panthers in Latin America are black jaguars, in Asia and Africa they are black leopards, and in North America reported black panthers may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars, or smaller cats. These animals are also reported as cryptids in areas as the United Kingdom and Australia, and for these the species is not known. Black panthers may be black jaguars, or black leopards.
