Comments like this amaze me, we have hundreds of millions of cell phone capable of taking picture, trail camera’s, regular camera’s and to this day not one person has ever gotten a picture of a black Mountain Lion, they do not exist!
I remember seeing one on our ranch in Texas near Bastrop in the 60s. Call it a puma or mountain lion, it was a large cat under a mercury vapor street light near our barn.
“Comments like this amaze me, we have hundreds of millions of cell phone capable of taking picture, trail camera’s, regular camera’s and to this day not one person has ever gotten a picture of a black Mountain Lion, they do not exist!”
My husband also was startled by the sight of a black panther on a rural road in Coastal NC. He saw it clearly, but as in many sightings in the wild, the whole thing happened too quickly to capture. This may not be an indigenous species, but the animal clearly existed in the wild.
Black mountain lion sightings are as old as the internet and are sure to show up on each and every lion thread. They usually end with a disgusted sounding statement that the local fish and game boys told them that none exist, but they know what they saw.
Mountain lion range covers North, Central and South America so you would think somebody in the past 500 years would have managed to shoot, trap, tree or run over a black mountain lion, but no, they are elusive critters. Lots of species have a melanistic phase, but not mountain lions.
Mountain lions are gold yellow.
Jaguars in Sonora are so black that you cannot see the spots.
And panthers in the southeast are black.
Furthermore, I am the last person on the planet to own a cell phone (no pictures) - plus not the only person to see panthers in that area.