It annoys me to read so many posts of people refusing to believe eyewitness accounts of black panther sightings. Maybe the reason nobody has a hide or a picture is simply that the witness didnt have his gun or camera on him at the time! I have personally seen two black panthers. The first time was in Morris county behind my house on the old Hughes Springs highway across from Daingerfield state park. I watched it through my binoculars. It was up in a tree laying on a limb about 15' up. I would have shot it but my rifle was at my grandmothers house down the road. I went and got the rifle and when I returned the panther was gone. Later that spring a friend and I were at my grandmothers house getting my boat when we saw a half grown black panther in the back yard of the vacant house next door (about 70 yards away). Both sightings were in the daylight). I went in the house and got my gun. When I got back outsie the panther went into the woods as I was coming out with my gun. We went looking for it but didn't see it again. You can choose not to believe this but God is my witness and so is Mark Wilson of Daingerfield (the friend who also saw it). This was in 1993 or 94.
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I have seen a couple too. They are nothing more than a color phase mountain lion,just like a chocolate or cinnamon black bear.Nothing special about them!
I was out visiting Shawn, from Adventures North Taxidermy in Palmer, Alaska theother day when I saw a picture of a white moose. He told me a neat story about it. To find out, it is not an albino moose but instead, it has a genetic defect; the mooses color is obviously controlled by multiple alleles, and in this case the brown color was recessive and or not present. The picture of the moose was awsome though! It would be a heck of a sight to see.