i was checking out information on black panthers (i was just curious). they are a black (melanistic) color variant of one of several large cat species. in the us it's the puma/mountain lion/cougar (genus puma), in latin america it's the jaguar and in rest of the world it's the leopard (both genus panthera).

"melanism in the jaguar is controlled by a dominant allele, in the leopard it's a recessive allele, and there are no authenticated cases of truly melanistic cougars . none have ever been photographed, shot or bread in captivity."

that's not my info, just some stuff that i read.

i'm not saying that's what i believe, pretty interesting though.

should we start getting some bail money together?

-shake