@WredAguyW: Not quite — I think you mixed up a couple terms. The spotted great cat of Africa and Asia is the leopard; the similar-looking South American species is the jaguar. Each species has a melanistic (black) form, and black individuals of each are known as black panthers. Bagheera was, as you say, both a leopard (the species) and a panther (the color morph).
Confusingly, the term is also sometimes applied informally to normally-colored jaguars and mountain lions (aka cougars), and is part of the formal name of a subspecies of mountain lion, the Florida panther. And finally, the rare albinistic (white) individuals of all these species are also sometimes referred to as (white) panthers. |
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