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The other evenin when we quite cuttin hay, I asked Lil Lilly if she'd stand in the hay so I could get a picture of how tall it was before cuttin. She readily agreed..ran out there I took the picture, then she kinda started wonderin around a bit.....I told her, "Ya might not wanna do that, since there has been times that foxes or coyotes have ran out while we were cuttin".....She hightailed it to the truck.....
Then we got home. and I downloaded pictures from the camera to the computer, she was sittin here with me...when this one came up...she said, "What IS THAT???" I said...."Prolly coyote eyes from the flash"
She wasn't impressed in the least.......I have no idea what it was, but if it were an animal I don't much think it woulda stuck around with her that close...but who knows....
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This is the sunset from the same evenin.
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Yeah show us the picture......Lil Lilly would just LOVE that!!! (NOT) but it might make her think when she's out messin around outside. We do have the occasional Black Panther down here. (knock on wood) none lately.
But I've always told both my kids to pay attention to what's around you, and always take the dog with ya. Rather loose a dog than a kid.
 
I forget who even told me about seeing it-I could of took a good one of my wife fencing with a black bear sitting on his butt about 20 yards away watching us. She was not impressed when I pointed out our little furry helper lol-I saw that 3 year old bear lots that fall-he scratched his rearend on my treestand ladder while I was up in it-lots of times when guys hunt over bait they'll climb up the tree to check you out-bears can't see worth a darn if you sit still.
 
Thats a neat picture Lilly,Greg said probaly a dog :roll:.Or an alien{thats my guess lol}Greg and I horse camp in Kananastis country in Southern Alberta in the mountains...I'm always a little afraid of cougars when we ride an old creek bed that rock encloses you in.I'm always looking up into the rock LOL Big chicken!!
 
We do have the occasional Black Panther down here. (knock on wood) none lately
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Size and Color: Adult cougars weigh an average of 140 pounds and are seven feet from nose to tip of tail (tail is almost as long as the body). Color is brown to gray above and whitish below. Black cougars have been reported, especially in South America, since at least the seventeenth century , but no scientific specimen exists of a black cougar in North America. Young are born with spots that fade during the first year.
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http://www.easterncougar.org/abouteasterncougars.htm

In North America, particularly the United States, panther by itself refers to a puma when the context implies a local species, although the term black panther is correctly associated only with the melanistic variants of leopards or jaguars rather than pumas. In Europe and Asia, panther means leopard and can refer to either the spotted or black leopard. In South America, panther refers to the jaguar and can refer to either the spotted or black jaguar. The melanistic gene can be seen in a variety of cats, including the lion, tiger, leopard, jaguar, caracal, jaguarundi, serval, ocelot, margay, bobcat, lynx, and Geoffrey's cat; however, melanism has never been documented in Puma concolor, although urban legends of "black panthers" persist. Such anecdotal accounts are particularly prominent in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States, a region where P. concolor is accepted as having been wholly extirpated by the late 1800's, and where breeding populations have not been documented as re-established by 2005.
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Well I beg to differ Ms Sage. I've seen one myself, Mr. Lilly has seen three, they have been in this area for many years. Mr. Lilly's Grandfather has hunted them along with his father, I aint sayin they are native, but they ARE here. We also have the occasional Tiger that's been turned loose from idiots in Big City's that have NO BRAINS and wanna keep em...till they get too BIG.


http://www.wtblock.com/WtblockJr/black.htm

THE BLACK PANTHERS OF THE LOUISIANA-TEXAS BORDERLANDS: ARE THEY EXTINCT?
By W. T. Block


When the writer was a youngster in Port Neches, Texas during the 1920's, there were still alive a few of the old-timers of Texas' "Big Thicket" or Louisiana's "Neutral Strip," who could tell hair-raising tales about the big black cats, that screamed in the jungles at night while they searched for their food. If one looks up the word 'panther' in a dictionary today, the latter defines it as being a "cougar," "puma," or "mountain lion," or the black mutations of the spotted leopards, jaguars, and cougars of Africa and America. What are generally referred to as 'panthers' in the United States today are about thirty big cats in the Florida Everglades, which very much resemble a mountain lion, and they are so endangered and weakened from in-breeding that that species will probably disappear very soon as well.

Before World War II, the Texas-Louisiana gulf marshes were huge fields of sea cane, averaging 15 feet high, that for some reason have generally disappeared. In his memoirs, K. D. Keith, an ex-Confederate captain and resident of Beaumont and Sabine Pass between 1850-1870, wrote of animal trails through the cane marshes of Sabine Pass, where once deer, panthers, and black bears abounded. The writer's grandmother, Ellen Sweeney, formerly of Grand Chenier, Louisiana, often repeated stories of Civil War days when she was a teenager, and all the men were away in the Confederate Army. She noted that as darkness approached, the frontier settlers of Grand Chenier and Cameron barred their window shutters every night (there were no glass windows there then) to keep the panthers out. After dark, they could hear the screams of the big black cats as they left the sea cane marshes for higher ground in search of easy prey - that is, goats, sheep, hogs, or even on occasion, a human.

Panthers, like many of the world's predators, sought their prey the easiest way possible - that is, with the least endangerment or risk to panther, and the least expense of energy, such as stalking, running, or trailing. Instinct taught Mr. Panther very quickly that a broken leg or fang left him quite physically impaired and thus vulnerable to other predators. Hence, panthers became expert at pouncing from tree limbs. And they clung to the sea cane marshes, to the creek bottoms, or the Neches, Sabine and Calcasieu River lowlands, where large numbers of feral hogs congregated to fatten on the "mast" of the nut-bearing trees. The only enemies of panthers that did not carry a rifle were the bears or huge alligators. One alligator killed at Beaumont in 1896 was 18 feet long; another killed in Southeast Texas in 1840 was 20 feet long. (Galv. Daily News, May 29, 1896, p. 5-C; Houston Morning Star, May 20, 1840).

A brother-in-law of the writer, Charlie Phillips of Hillister, Texas, now long deceased, often told of the panther that always followed him home. Phillips taught during the winter days of 1910 in a one-room Tyler County school out in the forest, and he rode home on horseback each day just as darkness fell. He claimed the panther always followed a hundred yards or so behind him, screaming like a woman in agony, but he never needed to fire his gun, and his horse never needed any prodding.

Before 1880, black panthers roamed in relatively large numbers everywhere between the piney forests of East Texas to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp and Florida's Everglades. Apparently, Texas had at intervals three species of the big cats, the panther in the east, the tawny cougar in the Pecos region, and on extremely rare occasions, there were reports of a spotted "Mexican lion" (el tigre), presumably a smaller species of spotted jaguar, that sometimes roamed across the Rio Grande River into Texas. Although perhaps the panther preferred an inoffensive sheep, goat, or pig for its dinner, there are still graphic accounts to be found on microfilm of people fighting off panthers after a fierce fight, or actually being killed and eaten by them.

The writer has located only one story about a spotted "Mexican lion" being in Jasper County or elsewhere in East Texas, although surely there must have been other accounts. The following story appeared in Galveston Weekly News of February 18, 1892, reprinted from Jasper Newsboy, as follows:

. . . Quite a curiosity was filed with the commissioners' court Monday under the Scalp Law, the scalp of an unusually large Mexican lion, which was killed in the lower section of the county by John Shepherd. Mr. Shepherd and his son were in the thicket hunting and came upon the monster, which showed a disposition to fight rather than run. The boy shot the animal, and his father told him to run. The boy never hesitated to take his father's advice, whereupon the animal made at Mr. Shepherd, and he shot him in the head. After he was killed, it was found that the boy had also hit the animal in the head, but the ball had glanced off, without entering the skull. The skull shows the head to be very near, if not quite as large, as an ordinary African lion's head.

The adult male panther perhaps reached a maximum length of five feet, exclusive of his three-foot tail, and reached a maximum weight of 250 pounds. The Houston Telegraph and Texas Register of August 20, 1845, observed that "a 450-pound panther was killed by Mr. Whitehurst of Brazoria County..." The weight was most certainly some one's "guestimation" and was probably grossly exaggerated. In an article captioned "Terrible Combat," the Houston Morning Star of November 19, 1844, page 3, described a woman in Nacogdoches County successfully fighting off a big panther. An encyclopedia recorded that the "heaviest mountain lion on record weighed 227 pounds…"

An article in Galveston Tri-Weekly News of October 10, 1872, recorded the death of a Florida woman, who had been killed and eaten by a large panther. In 1874, the Vicksburg Times carried a story, reprinted in Galveston Weekly News of June 1, 1874, page 5, partially told as follows in graphic detail:

…Killed And Mutilated By A Panther--Information was brought to this city (Vicksburg) last evenning of a horrible death that occurred near Delta on the 14th inst. (May, 1874). A colored man started to drive a team loaded with provisions from his home near Delta to the interior of the parish (Louisiana). He had been gone about 15 minutes when the team came dashing back without the driver. Suspecting something wrong.... they walked nearly a mile, when they came upon a scene that almost took their senses away.

…The body of the man was lying in the road, and a huge panther was standing over it, eating one of his shoulders... When they got back (with a gun), the panther was still engaged eating its victim. They fired, but did not succeed in killing it, and the panther ran away into the woods...

There was no location named Delta found on the road map of Louisiana, but there is a small village named Delta City, north of Vicksburg.

Both the Beaumont Enterprise of September, 17, 1881, and the Galveston Daily News of September 22, 1881, carried accounts of a panther attack near present-day Lumberton, in Hardin County, Texas, revealing the ferocity of two of the big animals that refused to give up their prey, as follows:

…Panther Attack--On the evening of the 2nd inst. (Sept. 1881), while returning to Beaumont from Lipscomb's (log) camp on the East Texas Railroad, Henry Winters and Alfred Creswell, colored men, were attacked by two large panthers, and they only saved their lives by clubbing them with heavy sticks. The fight lasted over 20 minutes, when the infuriated animals were made to retreat, but not until the lower clothing of the two men were literally torn off them...

Another animal attack reported in the Daily News of March 30, 1882, probably involved a large bob cat or wildcat rather than a young panther, although the editor referred to it as a 'catamount.' Mrs. Emily Smyth of Jasper County was the recently-widowed wife of Judge Andrew F. Smyth, a Texas Revolutionary veteran and for fifteen years, captain of the Neches River cotton steamers, Comargo and Laura. According to Jasper Newsboy, Mrs. Smyth and her son George W. (nephew of G. W. Smyth, Sr., signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence) heard a noise at night, which disturbed a calf and two mules in the barnyard. Young Smyth went outside with a gun, which he soon left beside a barn door, while he investigated the cause of the disturbance. His mother followed him outside, and suddenly a big bob cat jumped on Mrs. Smyth, began biting her shoulder, and clawing her back. In desperation because he could barely distinguish the animal amid his mother's screams, he held the gun muzzle against the animal's head and pulled the trigger. The cat fell dead to the ground, and Emily Smyth, although painfully bitten and scratched, was fully recovered within a few days.

Another verifiable panther episode (Galveston Daily News, January 14, 1897) occurred in December, 1896, when Captain J. J. Jordan took a load of supplies aboard his cotton steamer, the Robert E. Lee, and sailed up the Sabine River to Brice's Landing (a log skidway). On the return voyage, Jordan ran into low water, and he had to anchor the R. E. Lee at Droddy's Shoals to await a river freshet (high water). Hearing his dogs baying outside in the moonlight, Robert Jordan, the 14-year-old son of the captain, fired a shot at a large cat in a nearby cypress tree, and a large black panther fell to the ground. As the dogs gathered snarling around him, the panther, only momentarily stunned, began defending himself with every fang and claw, when suddenly young Jordan grabbed a pine knot and struck the panther across the head, which killed it. Jordan skinned the animal, had it stuffed at Orange, and mounted it as a trophy on the pilot house wall of his father's steamboat. That story is also recounted in the author's Cotton Bales, Keelboats, and Sternwheelers, published by Dogwood Press of Woodville in 1995.

The Sabine River panther, which probably survives today only as the tawny cougar or mountain lion of the Western States, will always be at odds with the ranchers, because of its propensity to kill sheep and livestock. Hence, park rangers in the Western States prefer to release captured animals in the high mountain ranges of Idaho, where they can survive, as well as thin herds, of aged and sick deer and elk, and likewise keep the cats away from angry ranchers.

The question remains unanswered whether or not any black panthers survive in Texas or Louisiana to the present day. No sightings have been reported now for many years, that is, that are verifiable. About 1952, a truck driver, traveling at night along Highway 62 between Buna and Mauriceville, Texas, believed he saw three panthers crossing the road eastward toward the Sabine River bottoms. About 1980 there was a reported panther sighting in the outskirts of Beaumont. And about 1985, a panther was reported killed near Tyler, Texas, although most probably it was a tawny cougar, that had drifted far east of its normal habitat. And since then, another panther has been sighted in the jungles surrounding Cow Bayou in Orange County.

It seems now that the black panther is either extinct or nearly so. None have been reported killed by a gun or run over by a car in many years. A century ago, an East Texas bear hunter's prowess was measured by the number of bears he killed each season. As evidence, Galveston Weekly News of January 28, 1878 observed that: "...E. Stephenson, the old bear hunter of Southeast Texas, killed last season 33 bears and up to date this season, has killed 49..." There were many reports of bear attacks as well. In March, 1878, a single bear reportedly killed both "old John Scott, a chief of the Alabama Indians..." and his son with a single bite, which crushed their skulls (Galveston Daily News, Mar. 15, 1878). Even the black bear of the East Texas piney woods is probably extinct as well, and while man fears the grizzly bear of the Rockies the most, there were also many people in East Texas and Louisiana killed by black bears in frontier days. With scarcely a doubt, however, the big panther was the more vicious of the two killers.
 
Heck, we get have black jags and leopards shot in Illinois from time to time. They are called black panthers and most people couldn't tell one from the other unless you got real up close and personal.. Of course in Illinois they are always released "pets" but that doesn't make them any less real.. Doesn't make the Cougars any less real either that have been turning up now and again either... They always get labled as escaped pets as well, or at least the DNR does everything it can to PROVE that is what they are.. Most have either died from lead poisoing, an arrow through the lungs or my favorite, being hit by a freight train trying to cross a bridge.
 
Ya for some reason real sightings of animals are downplayed..get that around here when a cougar shows up and attacks horses,then told nope don't get cougars in our area,must be somthin else,even though they've been seen
 
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Ya for some reason real sightings of animals are downplayed..get that around here when a cougar shows up and attacks horses,then told nope don't get cougars in our area,must be somthin else,even though they've been seen
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Although there are cougars in Alberta,they are in Northern Alta. and Southern Alta. Any comes to East Central,we're told that it isn't cougars,same with bears,they've been seen but are not native to our area.Fish cops deny they are here!!
 
MOst are kind of happy that DNR denes they are here (Department ofNatural Resources)... That means if they show up you can shoot them since they don't exist. I probably wouldn't shoot personally unless they were causing problems but I'm sure every neighbor within 20 miles would so I guess it wouldn't be up to me. We had one taken about 30 miles from here in winter of 2004/5. The coyotes around here never worry me with the cows but a big cat would probably make me a lot more nervous.
 
No one disputes that the cats do travel and show up places that are out of the norm. But, a "Black" Panther? well in East Texas I will say what the AGGIES say..most mistake them as black because they are seen at night and the shading on the cats are darker on the top..therefore gives off the appearance of black, this is their camouflouge. All my life I had heard about black panthers around here, never have we seen one...my ex was a wildlife major/ on top of being an Extension Agent and was approached with this subject so many times, he laughed at me when I said that there were "black" panthers here, that was right after we started dating and then he went to educating me. I can remember the first time I heard a cat scream...omg the shrill sounded like a woman getting killed. My dad stood outside with me then told me how every spring that they travel this ridge thats not far from our place and he has heard them since he was a young boy, sad thing is that I cant recall hearing them in many years. If there were truly "black" panthers, cougars, pumas then there would be some kind of pictures of them whether it is dead ones or live ones. The Biologist do know how to track the animals and they can find them if they are reported. The interpretations of what is black is sometimes just our eyes playing tricks on us. And yes we use to have black bears here, but they are all but extinct from here....sad . Our biggest threat are dogs, they pack up and kill more than coyotes or other predators. Just my 2 cents worth ;) but, as I say...take it as you will.

Everyone have a great Hump Day!!

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See somthing else we have in common with Texas,you have large cats we have large cats,you have snipes we have snipes..LOL.NEVER seen anyone use a gun on a snipe but guess there can be a first time.... :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
Everybody knows you catch snipes with vanilla wafers for bait!!!!! 2 sticks and " toe" sack!!


A Mtn Lion/Cougar/Catamount...whatever was shot not too far from me about 5 yrs ago....and it was a really dark caramel color.

I suppose diet they eat can show in their coat color, make it darker or lighter. Most animals will show changes in coat color depending on their various diets....maybe that's why some look darker than others!
 
Are US 'Black Panthers' Actually Jaguarundi?
by Chester Moore, Jr.

"Black panthers" exist in the United States.

This isn't a theory, hypothesis or hallucination, but a verifiable, undeniable fact.

No, science hasn't discovered a new cat species or a population of melanistic (black) cougars to explain alleged "black panther" sightings. They haven't even captured a black leopard that escaped from one of those circus train wrecks skeptics of cryptozoology so often speak of.

Yes, there are "black panthers" in the United States but believing in their existence doesn't require a leap of faith. It just calls for a new look at a known species: the jaguarundi.

The jaguarundi (Felis yagouaroundi) is known to range from South America to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. And although not widely known by the public, jaguarundis are prime candidates for spawning "black panther" reports.

They are a medium-sized cat with a mean body size of 102 centimeters for females and 114 for males according to Mexican researcher Arturo Caso. Other sources list them as ranging from 100 to 120 centimeters with the tail making up the greatest part of the length.

Most specimens are about 20 centimeters tall and sport a dark gray color while others are chocolate brown or blonde.

A large jaguarundi crossing a road in front of a motorist or appearing before an unsuspecting hunter could easily be labeled a "black panther". Since very few people are aware of jaguarundis, it's highly unlikely they would report seeing one. The term "black panther" is quick and easy to report to others.

Everyone can relate to a "black panther".

North of the border

Jaguarundis are known to range from South America to the Mexican borders of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. The key word here is "known". That means scientists have observed or captured the species within those areas, however they are reported to range much farther north in the Lone Star State and perhaps elsewhere.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) officials solicited information from the public and received numerous reports of the species in the 1960s, including several sightings from central and east Texas. Additional sightings were reported from as far away as Florida, Oklahoma, and Colorado

In a study conducted in 1984, TPWD biologists noted a string of unconfirmed jaguarundi sightings in Brazoria County, which corners the hugely populated areas of both Houston and Galveston.

Brazoria County is more than 200 miles north of the counties of Cameron and Willacy, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has designated as being the only confirmed areas of Texas that houses jaguarundis.

This is even more interesting when considering what TPWD biologist Terry Turney has to day.

Turney is now an endangered species biologist in Kendall County but spent the early part of his career in Port Arthur, Texas managing the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area (WMA). On this 30,000-acre tract of mixed coastal prairie and marsh according to Turney is a population of jaguarundis.

"While I worked the Murphree Area one of the workers had seen three of them and the ranchers around the area as well as other members of the Murphree crew saw them fairly frequently. It was "those little gray cats" to them," Turney said.

"I had two of them in my neighborhood near Houston in the late 70s and the dogs would tree them every couple of weeks. They're about the most secretive critters around," he added.

The J.D. Murphree WMA is more than 300 miles north of the Service's estimated range. How is it that state workers are seeing these cats in Port Arthur while the official word is they're only in the southern extremities of Texas?

In my opinion this is a great oversight by federal biologists who wrongly believe this cat to only inhabit a specific type of habitat. Jaguarundis are listed as an endangered species by the Service and full under federal jurisdiction. And for the most part what the Feds say goes with endangered species.

A study conducted by Arizona and federal scientists states that jaguarundi habitat, especially in South Texas, includes dense, thorny thickets of mesquite and stunted acacias known as chaparral. It also state less than one percent of this type of habitat is left along the US-Mexican border.

That's true but jaguarundis are known to live in a variety of habitats, including rainforests, prairie, deciduous forests and marshland. It could very well be that very few jaguarundis live in that zone because of a lack of habitat. Most of that area has been converted to farmland. The game and habitat-rich areas along the Texas coast along with the Pineywoods and Hill Country region however is housing a population of jaguarundis that have slipped under the radar screen of federal officials.

How far do they range?

If there's any validity to the 1960s TPWD report, sightings have been recorded in several states bordering Texas. Since TPWD biologists say the cats are present in Port Arthur, which rests on the Texas-Louisiana border then it's likely the cats also inhabit that state. It's also possible they could range into Oklahoma and Arkansas. Gauging how far they might range throughout New Mexico and Arizona is more difficult because there have been few studies conducted there. Their ability to survive in solid desert is also questionable.

Florida has a resident population of jaguarundis that were imported into that state in the 1940s. Since the cats are so secretive it's difficult to gauge their population status, but it is generally believed to be healthy.

This begs the question of how far those transplanted cats have spread? Are they now in Georgia and Alabama, two states that have frequent "black panther" sightings?

More research needs to go into this matter.

Personal research

My interest in the jaguarundi connection to "black panther" sightings comes from a sighting that took place in the summer of 2001 near Port Arthur, Texas. At around 9 a.m. while driving in a rural area I witnessed a long, slender, gray-colored animal emerging from the brush on the side of the road at a distance of about 75 yards. When I approached to within 30 yards the animal slowly walked in the middle of the road and crossed into a brushy area on the other side. Having worked with more than 11 species of wild cats at the Exotic Cat & Wildlife Refuge in Kirbyville, Texas and spent time observing the cats at the Texas Zoo in Victoria I immediately identified the cat as a jaguarundi.

I was shocked at what I had seen, but remembered a local minister telling me about a biologist at the J.D. Murphree WMA, (which was less than a miles from where this sighting took place) seeing jaguarundis. That biologist was Terry Turney.

I returned to the area several times and have been able to cast a number of tracks. Jaguarundis have a footpad that is slightly different from the bobcat, which also inhabits the area, and after several comparisons to bobcat casts I have made it's obvious that at least some of the tracks are of jaguarundi origin.

Several of the tracks were made in a damp area and have absolutely perfect definition so an adequate review of field guide diagrams and photos of tracks taken in Mexican was made. The footpad of some of the others is too vague for me to give a positive identification.

The best track by the way was found less than 150 yards from where I saw the cat in 2001.

At the time of this writing a Buckshot 35 motion-sensing camera has been put on a trail where the most recent tracks were found. I'm hoping a jaguarundi will step in front of it and give photographic evidence of this fascinating feline ranging more than 300 miles from where federal managers say it lives.

Chester Moore points to a jaguarundi track near the area where he
saw one. That's a Petersen's Field Guide in his hand. Jaguarundis have a
slightly different foot pad than bobcats and domestic cats and Moore is
meticulous about positively identifying animal sign.



In conclusion

Is the jaguarundi responsible for all "black panther" reports in the United States? That's not likely.

Are they the source of many sightings in the South and Southwest? There is no doubt in my mind.

Besides the obvious physical characteristics that match them to "black panther" sightings there are some habits of the species that also lend credence to this theory.

Jaguarundis are diurnal meaning they hunt mostly in daylight hours and this goes along with many reportings I have collected of "black panthers."

Several eyewitnesses insisted the cat they saw wasn't a cougar or bobcat because they saw it in the middle of the day. They said they got a good look at a dark, long-tailed cat. Bobcats and cougars are chiefly nocturnal while the jaguarundi is a daylight dweller.

Looking back it's funny that for years I lamented at never seeing one of the "black panthers" I so frequently gathered reports of. It seemed as if I was living in a Mecca for mystery cat sightings, but a glimpse of the cat itself always eluded me.

Then I saw a jaguarundi cross the road in front of me. It took a little researching and thinking time for it to sink in, but I finally figured out I had seen a black panther.

It just came in a slightly different package than I was expecting.





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Chester Moore's web site dealing with cryptozoology can be found at www.cryptokeeper.com. You can e-mail him at [email protected].

References

Caso, Arturo. Personal interview. 5, Feb. 2002.

Mabie, D.W. 1984. Feline Status Study. Ann. Perf. Report. Fed. Aid Proj. No. W-103-R-14, Job 12, Texas Parks and Wildl. Dept., Austin. 3pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1985. Technical Draft: Recovery Plan for the Listed Cats of Arizona and Texas. U.S. Fish and Wildl. Serv., Albuquerque, NM. 65 pp

Turney, Terry. Personal interview. 23, Jan. 2002

Tewes, M.E. and D.D. Everett. 1985. Status and distribution of the Endangered ocelot and jaguarundi in Texas. Internat. Wildlife Symposium, Kingsville, TX.

Hock, R.J. 1955. Southwestern exotic felids. Amer. Midland Nat. 53:324-328.

Davis, W.B. 1974. The mammals of Texas. Texas Parks and Wildlife. Bull. No. 41. 252 pp.


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