People have been recording history in this country for 500 years or so. Nobody ever has confirmed a black mountain lion in that time. None shot, trapped, snared, run over. Zero. The melanistic phase does not occur in mountain lions. If you see a black one, you didn’t see a mountain lion.
Any old garbage hound that will run a housecat will also run a bobcat or lion, they all smell the same to him. It isn’t hard to put a lion up a tree. Some of those southern boys should go out and tree a few black lions and make the history books. Shouldn’t take a long morning to accomplish if they are as plentiful as anecdotes would have you believe.
Yeah, well nobody's ever confirmed a big foot either but they're out there.