• odiumEnglish
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    especially

    This implies that it’s more common for black furred leapords and jaguars to be called panthers, but other things can be called panthers too.

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      Isn’t the “especially” part an injection which could be left out, so essentially: “A panther is a large wild cat, [], with black fur”?

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        Genera are within families, not the other way around. Maybe read a book?

        Also: the genus Panthera consists of 5 big cats. The other two big cats that aren’t in Panthera are the cougar, which is also colloquially called a panther, and the cheetah.

        So, in fact, “panther” can refer to any big cat other than cheetahs.

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        Dude, you clearly know nothing about taxonomy or big cats. You just want to be pedantic, but you are flat out wrong