When I was 14 yr old and lived in Miami Springs, Florida, that would be 1953, I was at the local shopping area right across the Miami River and from Hialeah. I saw a pick up park right in front of where I was standing and he had a dead black panther draped over the front fender lodged between the head light and the engine cover. I was shocked and will never forget that beautiful dead animal. I guess he was legal in killing it at the time. Since then I have done research and the black panther is actually a jaguar. It looks black but if the hair is pushed aside, the under hair has spots. They used to be common in the southern part of North America and Mexico and on south. But they are gone from this area and scarce in general in this hemisphere. They do no exist in Africa or those continents.
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