About Dewey D. Jorin Expertise Hi! To all those who have asked serious questions about interspecies conflict, I announce I will be leaving AllExperts for good. Im sad about it, but I must do it. Thank you to all of you, and before I leave, I want to give you some advice; please, read good books about animals, visit them in their natural habitats, but please, DO NOT THINK THAT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM JUST BECAUSE YOU'VE SEEN MANY VIDEOS ON YOU TUBE! It seems, and it makes me very sad, that there is some kind of community of animal fight fans out there who care nothing about real relationships between wild animals, and only want to know who would "destroy", "crush" or "anihilate" that other animal. Perhaps it was my fault; perhaps I chose the wrong subject. Had I know that I was helping to violent thoughts about animals fights, or even helping that morbid interest on animal fights to grow, I would have never suggested this category to be created.
So, I would like to apologize to all of you people who did care about animals, who did want to learn about them. To all of you, fight fans, I would like to repeat, what you see in YOU TUBE is not the real animal world, please try to get to know them better, or, if you only want to know who will kill who, please watch Celebrity Deathmatch. And, again to those who do care, please do not believe to anyone who says he/she knows about animals if his or her references are links to You Tube.
Best regards to all of you
Dewey D. Jorin
P.S- I almost forgot; I apologize to all of you about my bad English.
Experience Nothing teachs you more about wildlife than working with wild animals yourself.
This is not a interspecies conflict. But rather a question to enlighten me as to the difference in big cats. What is the difference beyween a panther, puma, jaguar and jaguar.
Kind Regards
Dee
Answer Well, there are lots of differences. Pumas (Puma concolor) are also known as cougars, catamounts, mountain lions, night screamers, American lions, Mexican panthers and by many, many other names. They are one of two extant members of genus Puma (alongside with the yaguaroundi, a much smaller cat), and the second largest American felid after the jaguar. They can actually grow bigger than leopards. They are easily identified because of their plain tawny, reddish or gray coat, without any kind of spot or stripe. (Cubs, however, are spotted). Cougars can be found from Canada to the Andes.
A panther is a leopard (Panthera pardus), specially a black leopard. At least, that's the use the word "panther" is given today. It should be noted that black panthers are not a separate species, and some people uses panther to describe the spotted leopards too. Thus, we could consider the word "panther" to be synonymous with "leopard" nowadays. Leopards live in almost all Africa and Asia from Middle East to Siberia. Black panthers can be found wherever there are leopards, but are most common in the jungles of south east Asia and the Ethiopian highlands.
A Florida Panther is a different thing; it describes a separate and very rare subspecies of puma (Puma concolor) living, where else, in the State of Florida in the US.
Finally, a jaguar is one of the four "great cats", belonging to genus Pánthera along with the tiger, the lion and the leopard.
It is the largest cat in the New World, being sometimes as large as an adult lioness, and has a yellow, golden or orange coat with black markings and rings, with smaller spots inside. They are bulky and have large heads, and sometimes they can be completely black. These black jaguars are sometimes called "panthers", adding to the confussion. Jaguars can be found from Northern Mexico to Argentina, with the largest population in the Amazonian rainforest. They can also be found sometimes in the southernmost states of US, but this is now exceedingly rare.
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