Originally Posted By: RJM AcresOriginally Posted By: GCRJM,
A follow-up on that animal was that it was an escaped/released captive leopard, not a wild mountain lion.
Boomy,
Since there is, nor ever was, such an animal native to North America, how could it be on the Endangered Species list? Do some research and show me the listing of "Black Panther" on the Endangered Species list as it applies to the United States. BTW, I thought there was no closed season on mountain lions in Texas? Also, nearly all states allow for the protection of person or stock attacked by an animal. If that is true, then shooting a black mountain lion would carry no more penalty than shooting a brown mountain lion does.
Didn't say it was wild but nobody knows where it came from.
Might have escaped from 1 of those funky road side zoos that are around the area.
Who knows ?
People dump all sorts of odd things and animals down in the Ozarks.
Ok, but the argument is that there are wild native “black panthers” in the United States and most assume that to be a mountain lion. Not some escaped or turned out captive non-native critter.
BTW, once while turkey hunting I saw an Emu stroll through the woods. I must have been ten miles from the nearest farm, but sure as shooting there it was. Considering the scope of this thread, maybe I should be telling stories of seeing a prehistoric turkey, the last remnant of its kind left on the planet, but surely native to our continent. LOL… I’m just funning, but I did actually see an Emu in the Mark Twain National Forest miles from the nearest homestead.