I don't need meds. I'm high on life.

And people that believe in black panthers in Texas.

Ya know Curly I think he really is a closet black panther believer...he just has not come out yet..

I'm ashamed to admit that I understood that. ^

I believe! I believe!

Now can you heal my sore knee?

Hey! Don't you know that Polar Bears do exist on some Pacific islands that have GeoMagnetic anomalies....there was even a weekly tv show about it, come on, live in the NOW!


Chupa

Duh, everyone knows leprechauns are only found in Alabama!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

Actually Panther comes from the word Panthera which is a genus of the family Felidae (the cats), which contains four well-known living species: the tiger, the lion, the jaguar, and the leopard. The genus comprises about half of the Pantherinae subfamily, the big cats. One meaning of the word panther is to designate cats of this subfamily.

The "black panther" is not a distinct species but is just the common name for black (melanistic) specimens of the genus, most often encountered in jaguar and leopard species.

A black panther is a large black cat, typically a melanistic colour variant of any of several species of larger cat. Wild black panthers in Latin America are black jaguars (Panthera onca), in Asia and Africa they are black leopards (Panthera pardus), and in North America they may be black jaguars or possibly black cougars (Puma concolor – although this has not been proven to have a black variant), or smaller cats.

So to say there is no such thing as "Black Panthers" is wrong!!!

I want to meet the person who drew the sketch!

BTW, they DO TO exist in Texas. I've got one on my box of cereal! So there!

X2 Monsterquest show 2 years ago

Don't you dare try to baffle us with your "Science" and "Facts"
We all know that "hearsay" and "belief" trumps science and fact...even more so if it's from the uneducated ...........


Chupa

Except that no one ever said that there wasn't such thing as black panthers. He was kind of proving a point no one disputed.

Follow up for the believers: Have you ever seen the Great Pumpkin?

Kninda like a Chupathingy?

I know one exists......Don't believe me? Just ask me, I'll tell ya.


Chupa

Wow, cant believe this is still here

I can't wait for the next person to see a house cat and snap off a picture. I wish it happened once a week.

its more fun than offending a newbie looking to swap out a hunt.... ... huh cam

Well Ive never seen a UFO or a leprechaun, but I have seen large (50-60lb) black cats in Texas

2 of them

one in Ellis county another out near Baird

I missed a shot (camera) at the one near Baird simply because my stupid freakin digimitable camera went to sleep and had to boot up!

In my opinion for whatever its worth these are mountain lions dark phase I know the TPWD biologists say there aint no such animal

neither of these were far enough away to be mistaken for feline domesticans! yes Im new to this board but not new to the Texas bush

somebody will get one on a trail cam someday

I'm sure you have, Just J. That's a great story.

DAMN CAMERA!

Just seems to keep happening. It's crazy.

haters gonna hate

While I do not have an opinion on whether or not black panthers exist, I do wonder how a species or sub-species is "discovered". Who has to see a presumed unknown animal for it to be officially discovered or recognized? Many animals, including mammals have been discovered in recent years. Since the year 2000, five new species of marsupials have been discovered, twenty-five new species of primates, thirty new species of bats, numerous sub-species of known animals were classified. Species that were once thought to be or suspect to extinction were "rediscovered". I suspect that all of these new and recent discoveries were seen by everyday people but weren't "discovered" until someone within the scientific community recognized the animal. People will believe what they want to believe, some won't believe until evidence exists, others won't believe even when presented the facts. Again, I have no opinion concerning the black panther debate, but I am not so arrogant to think that something of the sort could not exist. The mountain gorilla was discovered in 1902 by a German explorer. Do you think he was the first person to have seen the species? I doubt it. I am sure the natives knew they were there all along.

Yeah, the problem with that is that all these people seeing "black panthers" are seeing them all over Texas. Not exactly the middle of the undiscovered rain forests. Yet there is not 1 single picture, 1 game cam, 1 carcass from an animal hit in the road, 1 dead animal shot by a hunter...etc, etc.

Given the nature of the jaguar, which is an animal that moves a tremendous amount in search of food, it's simply not possible that all of the above condition precedents could occur if they existed in Texas. They don't.