Are Black Panthers Roaming Freely in the Florida Everglades? | Extinct or Alive | Animal Planet
Forrest Galante investigates possible black panther sightings in the Florida Everglades.
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Are Black Panthers Roaming Freely in the Florida Everglades? | Extinct or Alive | Animal Planet
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@pughoneycutt1986
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I don't know if they are in Florida but they dam sure are in north carolina mountains.
@Lash13927
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I believe the major misunderstanding was created by coloring the Puma brand logo black, along with Google images of a so-called “black puma,” which are actually photos of a black jaguar or black panther.
Or it was The Jaguarundi Dark.
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@leanthonyjtoddisshivarearh4507
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
King Midas Black Panther
@mariateresa6134
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I’ve seen a black panther coming from under The last drawbridge on Ana Maria Island how about 20 years ago at 4 o’clock in the morning , Now I believe I have a Florida panther in my backyard in Bradenton, FWC it said it’s not, and I can trap it
@GualeOrigins
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Jaguars are definitely indigenous to Florida. This has been proven many times.
@laken1804
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw one big black jaguar or cougar whatever, coming out of the woods going to someone's porch in Central Florida, it's a heavily populated area near a very busy main road.
At first I though it was a dog, then I had a good look and thought oh my God! it's a cat.
@LtDan-jr2qx
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
All that video just to cut it off really
@larryok8156
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I've lived in central Florida for 17 years. I've seen a black panther, during the daytime without any doubt. Couldn't have been 50 yards from me. I've also seen at least 6 regular panthers as well. I live in a somewhat rural area with plenty of different livestock and animals to choose from. I haven't heard of a rancher yet that hasn't seen a black one
@bonniemasdeu7855
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I"ve heard there is one here near Cutler Bay that has been reported off Old Cutler Road
@ThankGodimstraight
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Here in Va they are here. Everyone knows but the game wardens 😂
@jorgegonzales4153
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Black panthers may be endangered, the Florida panther is not and has not been. As a 7th generation native of Florida i have seen one black panther in the lutz Florida area. Since then numerous sighting and trackings of the usual and customary panther, beautful panthers. There is one on my, our, property today. The schoolies types, AKA mental master baiters, have no idea where or how to look for these beauties. Oh by the way i have doctorate level degrees…. They will never see one falling out of the sky, lol
@kennethfelipe823
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw a black panther or at least I thought I did in Kendall Florida. This has to be over 20 years ago, though it was in the park.
@joewhite-x1z
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
There have always been black panthers around the okefenokee swamp in South Georgia I have seen several times as have many others
@OlDoinyo
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Florida is a mess of introduced species. Leopards and Jaguars could easily be roaming the countryside and either can be black.
@renehamilton5422
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
See for yourself don’t take anyone word. Trust your instincts yourself.
@preppernewsandreviews
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
There have been confirmed jaguar sightings in Florida in recent years. That's what they are calling the "Black Panther." It's a jaguar..
@seanchaney3086
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Knowing Florida, non-Native animals often get released in the wild.
@froghussle5497
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
that wasnt a black wolf
@JosephWatson-l3q
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I've seen a florida panther but not a black one. It was drinking water out of a canal in South West Florida. Maybe a couple months back. Definitely an amazing site to see.
@bullyarena3923
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Martens get pretty big. They could easily be confused for a black cat from a distance. Jmho.
@samterano3790
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
babling and nothingness
@kellyharris4542
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Your already wrong before you even began,Jaguars are on the continent ,there in Naw Mexico,Arizona and certainly in Northern Mexico ,facts matter
@robertbachelor6993
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I jest this very day seen one it had a kentucky fried chicken box in its mouthand i seen its nuts too,they was pink.
@feliciagirl100
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I live in Central Florida and my family have seen Black Panthers they do exist in Florida sometimes you can hear them scream at night
@igotajopamerica3040
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Your as bad as a bigfoot hunter
You run around the swamp smashing the brush being as loud as a Circus, then start calling and run around again. Good luck finding anything.
@MarkBlakeney-t1r
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
If there were any, those Burmese Pythons have probably killed and eaten all of them.
@paulfeasal6024
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Black Panthers were in Florida more than seven thousand years ago. I live in Arizona and think their's a possibility it could be a Jaguar. Though they are not known to be in Florida they could have migrated from Mexico. Jaguars have been found in Arizona and Mexico. They had numbers at one time in the Southern US. Florida has been finding many invasive species that just reside to stay like Burmese Pythons and many species of monitor lizards.
@user-mr2eo9we3n
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
A LARGE black cat chased my daughter into our home a few months ago. She also wasn't aware she recorded the purr of this cat. We are very aware of wolves, coyotes, snakes, skunks, opossum, armadillos.
@WilliamOpferman
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Many years ago I saw a cocoa colored mountain lion in Southern California. I also heard that DNA for black cougars does exist, but is rare.
@JF-hc6id
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
It’s melonistic basically opposite of albino I’ve seen one in mosquito lagoon about ten years ago it was no wolf
@boardwalkbw7130
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
a Cougar was killed a few years ago in LaGrange Ga…also 2 other confirmed sitings of huge mountain Lions in Ga just in the last few years..very strange
@GrnXnham
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
This makes me wonder if this isn't a case of the occasional released pet. Like someone has a black jaguar or leopard (animals that we know actually exist) that they are keeping as a pet and it either escapes or they release it into the wild. Then the cats, of course, thrive in Florida because of the favorable environment. There isn't enough of them to be breeding, however. This would explain why they would be so extremely rare and unproven. Let's say for example, that there are only two or three of these cats living at a time in all of the everglades. It would be nearly impossible to locate one.
@StevenHughes-hr5hp
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
The Florida panther is a puma/cougar/mountain lion. How hard is it to imagine one with darker than usual fur? More likely than a unknown cryptid.
@TungstenDireWolf
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw a fl blk wolf last week in Tampa fl near the airport in a field on Benjamin & Hillsboro at 12 noon
@mountainman.4478
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw two in Florida. one while driving through Apopka Florida. at 5am in the morning in the business section of town. walked across the street like it didn't have a care in the world. another in Ocala national forest!
@hotfishscales
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
That 1934 picture is more clearer than a 2024 UFO sighting picture
@timmylakey1259
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
If mountain lions or Panthers same thing were black they would see them out west. Oddly enough u never hear anyone say black Panthers is real except for southern people. Historical records show it can only be a jaguar which occurs black 5 to ten percent of the time ranged new Mexico to Florida and loves water.
@AngelaGovin-o3o
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw a lynx in day time at sky line train so cool coming down a mountain
@AngelaGovin-o3o
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Wow awesome and my football team are black Panthers of Palmer mass Go Panthers
@JamesMorlan-tv2fr
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Evolution can speed up,if environmental conditions become so extreme that it forces spieces to change.
@goober698
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I got one on camera in green swamp near Lakeland Florida I gave the photo to fwc
@davidanderson5868
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
There were stories I've heard in Manatee County years ago.
@gregmartin1757
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
All these people claiming to have seen a black panther , you misidentified a different animal and possibly some of are just telling tale tales.
@texicontales
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I’ve seen 3 near fort Myers florida
@shekharmoona544
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
Wakanda forever!
@samueljames9342
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
3 years ago I spotted a black panther crossing the road not 100 feet in front of me. This was in Crystal River FL., about 75 miles north of Tampa. It was about 7:30 in the morning, the sun was up and I could see perfectly well.
@Playboiluis
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
I saw one in Wellington, FL
@92GreyBlue
March 31, 2026 at 9:56 pm
THE CIA TRAINS ASSASSINS AND DOES HUMAN EXPERIMENTS IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.
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