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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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[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I don't know about that. I'm far from a biologist, but in Dutch a panther is just a synonym for a leopard, not the whole Pantera family. The word panther is more associated with the black pelt, but still only refering to the species of leopard.