Black Cat (Panther) Video

[Die Judicii]

An interesting pic and video yesterday of a Panther videoed by a prospector near Ballarat in Victoria.
To see and read the accompanying story,, just go to the Yahoo site and search "Black cat (Panther) near Ballarat.

[on_one_wheel]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.c ... 47f9%3famp


Well its definitely a panther, the blunt tail is a sure sign.
The legitimacy of the video is the only bit I'm going to question.

[Oldbloke]

IMO it's fake.

It's a perfect video. No shake, panther exactly centre of screen.

[bigpete]

Its very clearly just a black feral cat. Looks nothing like a panther and never will. Just another person clutching at the straws of the Australian panther myth

[bigrich]

Its very clearly just a black feral cat. Looks nothing like a panther and never will. Just another person clutching at the straws of the Australian panther myth

the only thing for context of it's size is the grass around it . to me it looks like a cat . i have however seen other vids that came out not to long ago that DO lend some credibility to the panther myth . the best one i saw was the cat clawing a tree in the vid , and the Filmer shower how far up the tree the claw marks were, which was well over a meter . i have however seen some VERY large feral cats . after a few generations their fur turns into a tan/fawn color .

[Bugman]

Looks like an oversized, well fed feral, to me.

[niteowl]

Big moggy

[bigpete]

Its very clearly just a black feral cat. Looks nothing like a panther and never will. Just another person clutching at the straws of the Australian panther myth

the only thing for context of it's size is the grass around it . to me it looks like a cat . i have however seen other vids that came out not to long ago that DO lend some credibility to the panther myth . the best one i saw was the cat clawing a tree in the vid , and the Filmer shower how far up the tree the claw marks were, which was well over a meter . i have however seen some VERY large feral cats . after a few generations their fur turns into a tan/fawn color .

If you watch the first video,top left of the screen either a human or a roo or other bipedal critter goes over the hill by the building. That gives you good context as to the cats size. Second video its clearly just a decent sized feral. I don't see how anyone can look at either video and seriously think either is a panther

[Blr243]

The power of suggestion

[TheWolf]

the thing is feral cats don't really get all that big in the wild, I've shot s**t tonnes of them, all seem to be ...well just cats...

[bigpete]

the thing is feral cats don't really get all that big in the wild, I've shot s**t tonnes of them, all seem to be ...well just cats...

I'd disagree with that. They can be a big or bigger than a fox. Here's one old photo showing how big they can from back when my dad shot foxes for skins

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But that is FAR from being panther sized

[Blr243]

That’s a ripper moggy

[bigpete]

That’s a ripper moggy

Several times as a kid I remember dad coming back from fox shooting trips with cat skins that were as big or bigger than the fox skins. Hoping there's more photos amongst his slide collection