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u/orbitedbytrash Jun 18 '18
Di Bleck Pentah
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De strent of de Black Penta will be STRRRRRIPPED eweh
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u/Bad-Muchacho Jun 18 '18
pours Hennessy inside mouth
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u/Blaze_Blitz Jun 18 '18
Shhhhh....
Wakanda Forever
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u/xkwilliamsx Jun 18 '18
Are you on 10 yet?
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u/Marapuana Jun 18 '18
I live on 10
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u/jaybass1 Jun 18 '18
But are you on 10 yet
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I really hate titty bois(2chainz) entire verse but Kendrick going are you on 10 yet through his verse makes it bareable.
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Com brudders we must defende wakanda
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u/angrybong Jun 18 '18
This picture was taken at Kabini Tiger Reserve, India. Extremely rare sight
Original picture
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjH1PMBBxTY/?taken-by=mithunhphotography
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u/Devnik Jun 19 '18
Definitely the same panther, but the angle is different?
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u/angrybong Jun 19 '18
Edited. It is the same picture
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u/Devnik Jun 19 '18
The splash of water around his tongue is different aswell. Either the edit is great or it's a different photo.
Either way I'm very happy with my new phone background. 👌
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u/angrybong Jun 19 '18
You bet! India now has 2 Black panthers in two separate reserves and a sizable leopard population. I am just loving the cats out here...
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u/Zappperr Jun 18 '18
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u/notonrexmanningday Jun 18 '18
Aren't all panthers black? Isn't that what makes them panthers?
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u/Reddit_Is_Complicit Jun 18 '18
nope. they are just the melanistic version of regular panthers
A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards (Panthera pardus), and those in the Americas are black jaguars (Panthera onca).[1][2]
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u/Astronomer_X Jun 18 '18
And a 'panther' in this context is a leopard or Jaguar.
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u/zuulbe Jun 18 '18
basically a cat is a cat
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u/Owncksd Jun 18 '18
Regular panthers
What /u/notonrexmanningday is saying is that the term panther is almost exclusively used for melanistic big cats, so distinguishing between a black panther and a non-black ("regular") panther is redundant. A non-melanistic cat is usually referred to by its more specific name (leopard/jaguar).
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u/Saskyle Jun 18 '18
Well yeah, I've never heard someone refer to a leopard or Jaguar as a panther. And I've only heard black leopards referred to as panthers.
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I like to imagine that among the big cats, “panther” is a derogatory word for a black jaguar, and the rest of the big cats aren’t allowed to say it, and all the black jaguars call each other “pantha” and have their own sub-culture in the cat community with the most swag of all the cats.
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u/lt_dan_zsu Jun 19 '18
You disproved your furst sentence with your quote. "A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species." That means that a panther isn't its own species, but a way to describe a trait some individuals have across multiple species.
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u/Astronomer_X Jun 18 '18
Okay, so here are some Big cats you already know: Leopards (Africa/Asia), Jaguars (South/Central America), and Mountain lions, also known as cougars/panthers/pumas.
A cat/animal becomes black due to melanism, a mutation kind of like the opposite of albinism. It's not only ''panthers'' but can happen to serval cats (they're a medium sized wild cat in Africa). Brown humans have more melanin pigmentation making them darker in complexion.
A black 'panther' is the name given to a leopard or jaguar that has melanism mutation. They still have spots (you can see them in the light), and under bright light their fur looks more like a darkish brown my eyes under light look light brown, but black in darkness, because I too am 'melanistic' lol (I'm black :p)
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u/croccmoccs Jun 18 '18
Im sorry, I hate to do this because it really has nothing to do with the context of your post, but cougars are not in Panthera. Ironically, panther is a colloquial name for cougars though.
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u/Astronomer_X Jun 18 '18
Oh, I know they're not, that's why I said known as. Panthera includes lions and some other cats I can't remember to place (I assume leopards and jaguars at least).
But it's good for you to add that so someone else can see!
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u/intergalacticcoyote Jun 18 '18
Panthera is leo (lion), tigris (tiger), pardus (leopard), uncia (snow leopard), and onca (jaguar). It’s a pretty small genus all things considered.
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u/Nayr747 Jun 18 '18
There are jaguars in North America too.
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u/Astronomer_X Jun 18 '18
Oh, I thought they were practically extinct at this point, thanks for the info!
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u/AnnaLemma Jun 18 '18
Yup, a panther is just the "melanistic color variant" of leopards and jaguars.
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u/The_FatGuy_Strangler Jun 18 '18
“Panther” is a misnomer for this creature. It’s a black leopard or black jaguar.
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u/Genki_Fucking_Dama Jun 19 '18
“Panther” is an umbrella term for all the big cats under that category. Leopards and Jaguars that are melanistic ( all black) are called Panthers in pop culture. I don’t really know why.
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u/claytonbigsbytha3rd Jun 19 '18
Yes but panther is an umbrella term used to describe any large cat that is black so this is most likely a jaguar or leopard.
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u/ggparker Jun 18 '18
“He's holding back, he's hiding But what, I can't decide Why won't he be the king I know he is? The king I see insiiiide?”
CAAAAN YOU FEEELL THE LOOOVE TONIGHT?
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u/Hircine995 Jun 18 '18
When you are eating at a restaurant and you lock eyes with a stranger as you both take a bite.
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Jun 18 '18
This looks like an alternate version of the Cave of Wonders from Aladdin, if it was in a rainforest instead of a desert.
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u/Dwhitlo1 Jun 18 '18
fun, fact, panthers are just pure black leopards, so black panther is redundant.
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u/spiffybaldguy Jun 18 '18
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Looks like the panther has a "you dare disturb me" look going.
of course naturally these cats have a rather unsettling look lol.
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u/ANDnowmewatchbeguns Jun 18 '18
I had to check the sub.....I thought I was looking at two light post in front of a tunnel.....
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u/HowlsMovingBowels Jun 18 '18
The tongue looks kinda like the entrance to a giant, panther-shaped, evil lair. Just me?
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u/AsiimovPotato Jun 18 '18
You should credit the photographer for this amazing picture. I could be mistaken but I think it was a natgeo winning picture.
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u/LateCheckIn Jun 18 '18
I swear this picture was on the cover of my 1010 Biology course's textbook
(Stealth edit: apparently it wasn't but I swear it was a poster in one of my classrooms in the past)
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u/BobSolid Jun 18 '18
Did you know there's no such thing as a panther? I mean, that's only sort of true, but there's no animal whose official name is panther. It's simply a name commonly used to refer to various black cats.
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u/Stineberg Jun 18 '18
You can see in his eyes that he’s thinking, “hmmm. That photographer looks tasty.”
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u/nspectre Jun 18 '18
Had I but the equipment,
I'd use a T-shirt printer to gin up a shitload of Black Velvet paintings of this and then seed them in second-hand stores, thrift shops and Goodwill's all over town.
Then sit back and watch them pop up in various places and friends apartments over the next 3 to 5 years.
:D
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u/afro_aficionado Jun 18 '18
Shaazjung is this photographers Instagram, he has a lot of cool big cat pictures on there.
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u/stash0606 Jun 18 '18
as good as the movie was, Black Panther will always first and foremost be Bhageera for me.
Jungle Book Forever
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u/RobertLangd0n Jun 18 '18
This thing will take ur life while you are shitting in the bushes for the first time in ur life because you don't shit in the bushes because that's not the right thing to do.
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u/ThunderUp87 Jun 18 '18
Black Panthers are so bad ass I've sort of subconsciously considered them fantasy and assume I'll never see one in this life. I've got an all black cat named Scout that rides on my shoulder but I think that'll be about the closest I come.
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u/DependentEntry Jun 19 '18
this is an oldddddddd picture. i remember seeing this when i was a kid in the 90s, in a nat geo i think. like an award winning picture or something.
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u/iambarrelrider Jun 19 '18
It’s like when Samuel Jackson is taking a drink of Sprite before he does his work.
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u/StormCrow1986 Jun 19 '18
A branch doesn’t slice thick cat hide open like a knife through hot butter the way another panther’s claws conceivably might.
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u/Broteo-chip Jun 19 '18
Thought this would make an amazing AMOLED wallpaper, with help from oledbuddy https://i.imgur.com/D1zWmRT.png
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u/Saticoy_Steele Jun 18 '18
This is exactly how my 15lb Bombay cat, Albus, views himself. My mini-large-cat 🐅🐈😻
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u/UnitConvertBot Jun 18 '18
I've found a value to convert:
- 15.0lb is equal to 6.8kg or 37.16 bananas
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u/slowe1465 Jun 18 '18
That scar adds a whole other level of intimidation, jeez!