Black panther sightings/discussion

[cajunforeman]

I've seen a lot of cougars in my days both 2 legged and 4. The 2 legged are seen all across the country the 4 legged I've only seen and hunted in colorado. It is a rush tracking a cat in 12 inches of snow but I've never seen one in lousiana. FYI... Just a duck hunter so who knows they could be out there but in black, I'm not convinced.

[1fastmerc]

Originally Posted by 1fastmerc

I saw one when they opened up Andrew Mouhot Rd and my friend saw tracks by his deer stand several times.


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Let me clarify that this was NOT a black panther but a cougar. It was at night but you could see it was tan not black.


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[Goooh]

Originally Posted by huntin fool

Cougars, yes. Had a guy who deer hunts with us claim he seen on and hasn't returned since.

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/34503

[mallardhead]

I like them tan long legged cougars lol

[swamp snorkler]

I can tell you why you don't see them often.

I've been living in my house for 8 years. I know my way around pretty good. My wife has a cat. If that cat doesn't want to be seen you not going to find her. A wild cat in their element is very elusive, you talking about a 100lb animal in square mileage of forest. They can hide very well.

[Captain Mike P.]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...55534169,d.b2I

[jpeff31787]

they for surely have one in church point.. hard to say if it was black or not, it was at night

[Lake Chuck Duck]

"Sorry I had a fight at your Black Panther party"

[Lil Silver]

My nephew has pics of tracks that look like were made by a "BIG" cat a few years ago. A couple weeks later it crossed the gravel road in front of his truck late at night. He said there was no mistaking what it was. This is in the old Sulphur mines area.

Year's ago, farmer friends of mine saw one a couple of times on their farm. This is about 3 miles from my nephew's place.

This past fall, sitting on my front steps smoking a cig before heading to work, way before daylight, something let out a scream with a roar mixed in, that's the best I can describe it, across the road in the woods. It sounded like a frickin loud speaker out in the woods. People say it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. It felt like every hair on my legs stood up. LOL. My first tought to myself was, *T* was that? I grew up hunting in the woods ever since I was a little boy and never heard nothing like that. It was very LOUD. Talked to a neighbor that him and his family have hunted those woods for years and explained what I heard. He kind of laughed and said, yeah junior has a few pics of a big cat on one of his trail cams. This is about 2 miles from the place the farmers saw it years ago.

Black, no, I don't think so at all. Maybe they look black late in the evening or early morning. Brown, definitely yes. They be out there. BTW, this one sounded brown. Think it gave me a brown streak too! :*****:

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jaguarundi
Have listened to this debate before, about 10 of us saw what appeared to be a large dark colored cat 20 years ago... After canoeing the whiskey ****to river, drinking beer all day...I must add... So it probably seemed a lot larger than it was... These cats are what people say we saw.... Only 20 pounds or so, but with the heavy coat and thick long tail and total length of 60 inches... Very easily mistaken for a BIG CAT... Lol

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[Reggoh]

This is a picture of the Black Jaguar at the Baton Rouge Zoo... I know if I saw this in the wild I wouldnt be able to tell if it was a jaguar or a cougar... /shrug

Jaguar
Jaguars can be spotted or melanistic (meaning the dark color form of an animal). If you look closely at the black jaguars, you can see their spots. These black jaguars occur naturally in the wild, and are found in denser, darker forests.

Jaguars are good swimmers and sometimes catch fish, turtles, and even caimen.

HABITAT: Forest and swampland

DIET: Deer, peccaries, agoutis, pacas, fish, turtles, caiman and other medium to large prey

LIFE: Expectancy12-16 years

[Duck Butter]

There have been at least 2 confirmed wild cougar/mountain lion/panther/puma sightings in Louisiana over the last 5 years. One was seen by two LDWF biologists and the other was the one in Allen Parish. The biologists found some scat and had it analyzed and found it to be of wild origin, I have this publication somewhere, it was published in Southwestern Naturalist journal I believe. The one killed in a tree near Shreveport is mounted in the LDWF headquarters in Baton Rouge. You can see it as soon as you walk in the building. This is NOT a wild one, it was of captive origin.

There is ZERO evidence of black mountain lions in Louisiana.

As far as the sounds of a woman screaming in the woods, listen to the sound a barn owl makes and it will raise your hair on the back of your neck a little

[Duck Butter]

I don't know why I have this picture in my files but it deserves to be here

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

I don't know why I have this picture in my files but it deserves to be here

CoCo B Ware........ Just the sight of him brings back this memory.

My Buddies dad was a local wrestling promoter/owner of Mid South Wrestling after it's hay day in the Mid 90's. My buddy was the ring announcer, I was the time keeper and his dad was the Referee.

Well anyway CoCo B Ware came wrestle one night, and was trying to hustle us. He wanted us to give him some money, he was going to go back to Dallas, buy whatever we wanted from a Crackhead (stolen) and bring it back to us at the next show. Yeah right, he didn't get any money off us.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

CoCo B Ware........ Just the sight of him brings back this memory.

My Buddies dad was a local wrestling promoter/owner of Mid South Wrestling after it's hay day in the Mid 90's. My buddy was the ring announcer, I was the time keeper and his dad was the Referee.

Well anyway CoCo B Ware came wrestle one night, and was trying to hustle us. He wanted us to give him some money, he was going to go back to Dallas, buy whatever we wanted from a Crackhead (stolen) and bring it back to us at the next show. Yeah right, he didn't get any money off us.

What? That tarnishes my impression of him

Who is the other guy in the pic?

[Smalls]

That's Owen Hart man. One of the all time greats. Ironically, he tagged with what some might say to be the WWF's version of black panthers: Nation of Domination. lmao.

[Reggoh]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

What? That tarnishes my impression of him

Who is the other guy in the pic?

Owen Hart

[SaltERedneck]

that pic is hilarious.... awesome halloween costumes! lmao

[Top Dawg]

Never mind. Black panthers do exist. Guy I work with knows a guy that killed one and he went to get it mounted then got in trouble when wlf found out. Lost his hunting rights for a couple years for killing an endangered species.