Panthers in Australia

dragon(ele)nerd

dragon(ele)nerd

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Just came back from school camp,

Two days before I arrived at the place supposedly the gippsland phantom cat was spotted crossing the highway that we passed to get to the camp site!

I would really like to find out more about these Panthers of the australian bush, does anyone here have any info?
 
One point. There is no such thing as a panther! This is a myth started by Disney in the film 'Jungle Book'. Mowgli is actually a black jaguar. Panther is often used as a term to cover a number of big cats such as jaguars.
 
Sorry Simon, just to point out - Mowgli is human (a man-cub) and Bagheera is the black leopard (I say leopard because its a bit more geographically likely than having jaguars in India. Having said that, you don't normally get orangutans, like King Louie, there.)
Great film.
I think panther is term to describe any member of the genus 'Panthera', or sometimes different species of big cat (e.g. the cougar.) Black panther is widely used to refer to a melanistic big cat, such as a black leopard or black jaguar. I'm not too sure about how widely accepted these terms are though.
 
Simon McGlary said:
One point. There is no such thing as a panther! This is a myth started by Disney in the film 'Jungle Book'. Mowgli is actually a black jaguar. Panther is often used as a term to cover a number of big cats such as jaguars.
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nayer said:
Sorry Simon, just to point out - Mowgli is human (a man-cub) and Bagheera is the black leopard (I say leopard because its a bit more geographically likely than having jaguars in India. Having said that, you don't normally get orangutans, like King Louie, there.)
Great film.
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Just one little pedantic point on both of those posts, Bagheera was a black leopard and was created by Kipling in the original book, but King Louie the Orang was a Disney additon to the Jungle Book story.
 
nayer said:
Sorry Simon, just to point out - Mowgli is human (a man-cub)
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Thanks for the correction! Shows the last time I watched Jungle Book. Being a former cub scout I should have known that anyway. I stand corrected!
 
so is it something like the mountain lion/ cougar/puma? I actually thought jaguars and panthers were seperate species, though are panthers and jaguars different from each other? I know a jaguar can have a black apperance so I'm assuming it's just another common name.

Sorry if the language isn't good.
 
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