Does anyone know any good websites for research about black panthers?
Leopards and jaguars that are melanistic, either completely black or very dark in coloration, are known colloquially as black panthers. The jaguar closely resembles the leopard, but is sturdier and heavier, and the two animals can be distinguished by their rosettes: the rosettes on a jaguar’s coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks. Jaguars also have rounder heads and shorter, stockier limbs compared to leopards. The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four big cats of the genus Panthera. Now chiefly distributed in subsaharan Africa. There are fragmented populations in Israel, Indochina, Malaysia, and western China. Its numbers are greater than that of the other Panthera species, all of which face more acute conservation concerns. The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four “big cats” in the Panthera
