black panthers

Dark-coated big cats

Black panthers are large cats with dark pigmentation—either leopards or jaguars whose spots are obscured by melanistic coloring.

The term sometimes appears in wildlife documentaries and popular culture, where black panthers carry an aura of sleek mystery. (Capitalized Black Panthers refers to the Black Panther Party, the revolutionary organization founded in 1966.)

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coloration/pigmentation

black pantherssnow leopards

Spotted alpine big cats

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POLITICAL IDEOLOGY (Black Panther Party)

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White supremacist hate organization

John Birch Society · segregationists · George Wallace · KKK · white supremacists

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