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Originally Posted by evidrine
also, bobcats have been captured in the wild. Just another example of somthing that is not supposed to be black but is.
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In some animals (squirrels for instance), you can have dark agouti coloration (dark colored), melanistic (jet black), and albino (completely white with pink eyes). This happens in the wild, but cougars are rare enough as it is, and to see one with some sort of pigment oddity is even more rare.
What is funny is that the odds of seeing a cougar are extremely rare, and to see a black one is more rare than that. I would bet that 1/2 of everyone who claims to see a cougar would also claim that it was black. That is the problem.