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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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Norgur@kbin.social
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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.

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jake_eric@lemmy.world
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Why would black panthers not be?

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Norgur@kbin.social
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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.

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