black panther

Sounds crazy? not really....yesterday I was travelling along I-65 and around Evergreen there was a big black animal on the side of the road. It was too big for a dog and I noticed it had a very, very long tail. About ten minutes down the road (toward Pensacola) something caught my eye in a tree. It was a live big black animal, looking to be the same as the dead one I had seen. It reached its paw down to the lower branch and it was huge.
Does anyone know of such an animal? My son-in-law said panthers are brown but I see on the internet there is a black panther too.
Would sure love to know what this animal was.
Thanks so much........Jackie Corby (Pensacola, FL)

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Jackie - of course I can't guarantee that what you saw was a panther. However, I grew up about 10 miles south of Evergreen. I was always told that there are panthers in that "neck of the woods", and several times heard "screaming" in the woods at night and was told that it had to have been a panther. Cougars are also prevalent around the area, and I have seen several of them - most recently about 2 months ago.

Oh... and yes, Panthers are Black... here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_panther

Jackie Corby wrote:

Sounds crazy? not really....yesterday I was travelling along I-65 and around Evergreen there was a big black animal on the side of the road. It was too big for a dog and I noticed it had a very, very long tail. About ten minutes down the road (toward Pensacola) something caught my eye in a tree. It was a live big black animal, looking to be the same as the dead one I had seen. It reached its paw down to the lower branch and it was huge.
Does anyone know of such an animal? My son-in-law said panthers are brown but I see on the internet there is a black panther too.
Would sure love to know what this animal was.
Thanks so much........Jackie Corby (Pensacola, FL)

hey, im like 13 and me my cousin and sister went fishin behind my house.. there was a panther across the creek. yeah, it was black.. and there are such things as black panthers so dont let other people fool you about ,oh those things dont excist!! cause they do. i almost got attacked back there on a mountain where nobody was around.
but my point is, its a black panther and scientists are stupid sometimes. lol.

i know for a fact that Evergreen does have black panthers... they are usually only seen in the woods. My friend lives way out in the county and when i go to visit her we can sometimes hear them scream. Sounds just like a woman screaming.

I live in Evergreen close to I-65.I have seen the black panther my self. It got our neighbors goats. So yes they are black panthers too.