Felines have always been a mysterious race, most of us only know some of the more famous ones, such as tigers, lions and the like, but the cat family is not only tigers and lions, in addition to a variety of leopards, cats, they together constitute a huge entire cat family. We all know that felines are very high in terms of strength and popularity, but you know some of the more mysterious species? Maybe you've heard it in some myths, but how many people have seen it with their own eyes?
Today we are going to talk about this cat is the most mysterious one, they are more mysterious than the white tiger, because of the appearance, people are called "night ghosts", this cat is the American panther. Speaking of black panthers, each place may refer to different species, for example, China often calls the blackened golden leopard a black panther, and some regions in Asia call the blackened breed of the Asian golden cat a black panther. The narrow sense of the black panther mostly refers to the blackened variant of the jaguar, although it is called a leopard, but it is not a kind of leopard.
Jaguar, also known as jaguar, is a species of leopard in the leopard subfamily Leopard genus, the size of the body ranks in the entire cat family in the third, so in the strength is also ranked third, this is no dispute, after all, everyone belongs to the same cat family, paws and fangs are similar, the larger the body size, the stronger the strength. The jaguar is mainly distributed in Central and South America, is the strongest cat in the local area, almost except for the bear, it has no opponent, even crocodiles, can easily prey on.
Black panther is a blackened variant of the jaguar, at the beginning, people think that it is a completely new breed, and tigers, lions, leopards, they are the same, is an independent existence, but with the deepening of research, people found that it is not the same thing, they are the result of jaguar gene mutations, this mutation is harmless, in addition to the appearance is different, there is almost no difference, predation skills, living habits, reproduction, these characteristics are exactly the same as ordinary jaguars.
Generally speaking, the offspring of genetic mutations are difficult to survive, such as white tigers, because the color is too obvious, it is not easy to hide in the forest, and it has been detected before it is close to the prey, so the success rate of hunting is low, and the survival ability is naturally poor. But the black panther is an exception, unlike the white mutation, the blackened jaguar is more concealed, is a top protective color gifted by nature, and is conducive to jaguars hunting in the forest.
Black panther and ordinary jaguar, is a nocturnal animal, most of the day is in the book or grass in the rest, wait until dusk to come out of action, because the whole body is black, only a pair of eyes will emit light, so under the cover of night, the panther's predation success rate will be much higher, and it is precisely because of the fullness of food, so in general, the size of the panther will be larger than the ordinary jaguar. As mentioned earlier, the larger the body, the stronger the strength, so it will give people the illusion that the black panther is stronger than the ordinary leopard.
In fact, if the black panthers of the same weight are compared with ordinary leopards, they do not have any combat advantage, but they eat better and occupy the individual advantage in weight, not the racial advantage, not to mention that they are not an independent race. Because hunting at night, it looks like there is only one eye shaking in the distance, which is the same as the description of the ghost in the mythological story, so the local people also sent a loud name to the black panther, called "night ghost", I don't know if there is a translation right, is "night ghost" or "night ghost", anyway, it is almost the same meaning.
We all know that the tiger is the strongest cat, but in terms of skills, the panther knows more than it, it can not only climb trees, swim, jump, stand, etc., basically see the animals it can prey, fill, land, trees, water creatures, basically are jaguar prey objects. Strictly speaking, the jaguar is the all-rounder in the feline family, and the black panther is a little more mysterious.
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