Local man says black panther getting more dangerous [WI & IA]

Courier Press ^ | July 9, 2018 | Ted Pennekamp

[the_daug]

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned GOP.

[dfwgator]

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned GOP.

After he saw the reality of life in Cuba, he got "religion".

[This I Wonder32460]

” I couldn’t help but think of all of the women and kids killed in California since Cal outlawed cat hunting.”

Statistics please?

[PLMerite]

I talked to a guy in Texas who said he’d seen cougars in six different colors including black.

People report seeing these things all the time in North America.

[W.]

o. well... :)

[hanamizu]

Statistics please?

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Wikipedia: “List of fatal cougar attacks in North America”. But I know the list is incomplete. A woman was killed in San Diego county a few years ago. She was attacked by a female cougar. Rangers killed the cougar involved. Many people took up a collection...for the care of the cougar’s cubs.

Attacks are rare, but they do happen. And they seem to be happening more frequently. I, for one, do not welcome their return to places where lots of people live. Our ancestors wiped them out for a reason. Black bears cause problems, but I don’t think they think of us as prey. Mountain lions may see smaller humans as potential meals.

[Jeff Chandler]

Cougars, Catamounts, Pumas, none are black.

You are right; The existence of a melanistic cougar has never been confirmed.

Jaguars can be.

The only verified jaguar currently living in the United States is El Jefe, seen in the Santa Rita Mountains in Southern Arizona.

Don’t really want either one around.

ESPECIALLY not a jaguar.

[Jeff Chandler]

appears to have only three full legs

Goes by the nickname, "Lucky".

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s a pretty podunk newspaper, LOL!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Listen. Enough with the Michelle 0bama videos. She’s gone! Let’s just get on with our lives, LOL!

[riverrunner]

No one has place a lot of game cams on the farm. for a few hundred dollar’s one could easily have for or five set out.

They work day or night.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Dayum!
Does Calypso Louie know?

[xone]

Black bears cause problems, but I don’t think they think of us as prey.

Some do, makes for a bad scene.

[Bulwyf]

Send a few black and tan coonhounds out or blue ticks, follow them and when the cats are treed, let em have it.

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

That there are occasional passing thru theWI area is known. The color makes me skeptical, but if true it's the first mating pair in WI in recent times, and the first kits. I'd assume the DNR is looking at this

[Alas Babylon!]

I think I found a followup photo. Much better resolution:

He looks very mean and angey, yikes!

[Dusty Road]

That’s a house cat, there are no melanistic Mountain Lions, not now not ever. The Jagarundi of the south west can be melanistic and even the lowly Bob Cat but no Mountain Lions.

[SolidRedState]

I will put in my 2 cents here. Cougars, for some odd reason, look black in silhouette. I have seen them. They really are not black but can appear so under a lot of lighting conditions.

However the picture looks like a large house cat.

Cougar tails are usually as long as the body of the cat and curl up a bit at the end.

[Beagle8U]

” Larry’s wife said she then found a cow hiding behind a tree because it was scared. “

OK, that part ruined any cred this guy might have had.

[Beagle8U]

“Black bears cause problems, but I don’t think they think of us as prey.”

Huh? Black bears will eat anyone they think is easy prey.