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Black panthers are not an actual species - they are jaguars and leopards with melanism, the opposite of albinism (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Literally every time I would say this, on the that other place, that I won’t name, I would get downvoted to oblivion.

Large cats (tigers, lions, jaguars, and leopards only) are part of the panthera genus. Probably where the name came from, but there is no one specific animal that is a panther.

I guess the mountain is sometimes referred to as a panther, but it’s not accurate.