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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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[–] jake_eric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would black panthers not be?

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 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.