r/natureismetal • u/MadnoMashuqa • 1d ago

Baby Black Panther

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Photo taken by Shaaz Jung in Kabini National Park, India

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u/DreamingDragonSoul 1d ago

Cute. There is a spottet one next to it though. It is also adorable.

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u/Bulky-Noise-7123 1d ago edited 1d ago

They’re both spotted ones just easier to see the spots on one of them than the other

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u/RedditIsGay_8008 1d ago edited 14h ago

I didn’t even see the brown one. I would of been dead if I was its prey

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u/AppropriateDeal1034 4h ago

I'd have been dead anyway because I would have gone to cuddle them

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u/oilrig13 1d ago edited 4h ago

Thanks captain obvious . Nearly didn’t notice /s

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u/AppropriateDeal1034 4h ago

You mean thanks? But still, many people didn't, they were staring at the beautiful void

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u/oilrig13 4h ago

“ Beautiful void “

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u/WildTitle373 11h ago

Cool picture with the side by side of the two colorings!

Also this reminds me of how I saw one of these once roaming a street… I thought it was a lost dog at first only to quickly discover it wasn’t a dog lol

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u/OmSaraya 8h ago

Not me realizing I’ve never seen a baby black panther until now! 🤯

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u/CrepuscularTandy 18h ago

Panthers aren’t real

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u/TheUglyTruth527 16h ago

Technically correct, but you've been downvoted by people who don't know any better and therefore hate you.

Panthera is a genus in the Felidae family and contains the five big cats: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard. "Black panthers" are any member of the Panthera genus with melanism, but jaguars and leopards are the most common.

Fun Fact: only cats in the Panthera genus can roar due to the composition of their hyoid bone.

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u/Wolverine_Squirrel 15h ago

Snow leopards can’t roar and they’re panthera unica

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u/TheUglyTruth527 14h ago

I didn't say all Panthera cats can roar, but only Panthera cats can roar.

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u/Wolverine_Squirrel 14h ago

Ohhh sorry I misread

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u/alcohollu_akbar 9h ago

Panther is a completely normal way to refer to any individual of the Panthera genus.

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u/AutisticTumourGirl 8h ago

Regularly refer to lions as panthers, do you?

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u/penarhw 1h ago

Seeing this in real life will have me shaking to my bones

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u/mcnicol77 14h ago

I'm not sure kittens and flowers are all that metal...

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u/GabrielWornd 3h ago

The rock that sustains they probably has some metal 🤔

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u/atle95 1h ago

Flowers take thier energy directly from the sun 💪 Kittens only know murder.

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u/herpermike 21h ago

Bagera!

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u/MadnoMashuqa 21h ago

Bagheera

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u/herpermike 21h ago

Thanks 👍