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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] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Let's mildly interest the shit out of this one: While Black Panthers aren't a species, the class of animals tigers and leopards and some other big cats belong to is called "Panther" (plural "Panthera"). So... Tigers are Panthers while black Panthers might not be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would black panthers not be?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I somehow threw Jaguars in with the lynxes which would have meant that a black panther that's acutally a Jaguar would have been a lynx. Idk what befell me there... Jaguars are Panthera, too, so my "might" is not true. Black Panthers are Panthers.