[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh the DNR guys will tell you all day long there are no Black Panthers in GA either. We had two juveniles walking down the middle of our street one night several years ago. It was about 1:00AM. I woke up and thought I heard a child crying so I got up and eased out on the back deck to listen. The dog started barking in the living room and Mr. GG2 went to look out the window and there they were sashaying down the street. At first he thought they were Bobcats til he saw the long tails.

Mr. GG2 was out hunting in Alabama once and he was walking down a dirt road. He happened to turn and look back and saw a Black Panther slinking across the road.

[Jeff Chandler]

Black Panthers are either leopards or jaguars. Leopards live in Asia and Africa, so they couldn't have been leopards. The only known current habitat of jaguars in the U.S. is in Arizona along the Mexican border. They are considered extirpated from the southern states. If those were jaguars, they were rare indeed.

Even more rare would be black mountain lions, as those are considered non-existent.