There are no black panthers in Tennessee.
Black panthers live chiefly in the hot, dense tropical rain forests of South and Southeast Asia.
They are mainly in Southwestern China, Burma, Nepal, Southern India, Indonesia, and the southern part of
Malaysia. Black leopards are more common than light-colored leopards.
Black panthers live on average of 10 to 15 years although some black panthers can live up to 17 years.
A black panther is the melanistic color variant of the leopard and the jaguar.
Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present.
The population of black jaguars and black leopards approximately live for 12-17 years in the wild and 20-15 years in captivity.
Black cougars have a lifespan of 10 years in the wild and if they are captured and taken care of, they can survive for at least 20 years.
Panthers and jaguars are often mistaken for each other as panther is sometimes used to describe a jaguar. In fact, jaguars are Panthera onca, while panther is either a melanistic jaguar or melanistic leopard (Panthera pardus).
A panther can jump 18 feet into the air to leap onto rocks, ledges, or other supports.
When jumping horizontally, panthers have been known to jump as far as 30 feet.
An animal like the black jaguar or a jaguar in general—they're a massively solidly built muscular powerhouse of an animal.
They can take down and kill something 10 times their weight, many times their body size, with a single bite to the neck or to the skull.
The difference between Panther and Jaguar is that Panther is the broader term used to refer to any big cat.
Jaguar, on the other hand, is a panther with black spots on its body and mainly found in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America.