Can panthers live in wv

Answer 1

About 15 years ago, me, my wife and child were driving home to NC from Garrison Ky going down a road everyone called Kinney. As we rounded a curve just outside of town there was a huge black cat standing in the road. I was going about 25 mph cause the road is very dark and narrow. I stopped the car and the cat just looked at us. I woke my wife and daughter so they could see it then turned my lights off for a few seconds, when I turned them back on it was gone. It was the size of a tiger with a long tail. If it wasn't a Black Panther then I wouldn't know what to call it. I'm very sure it was a panther. I remember it like it was yesterday

Answer 2

No, black panthers do not live in Virginia. The melanistic jaguar is most common in the Amazon basin of South America and the jaguar, as a species, barely enters the United States in the extreme southwest.

Answer 3

Yes. There are plenty of prey species in the state that pumas can eat, and plenty of wild forest regions. The puma or mountain lion used to be found in the state.

Answer 4

No, black panthers are primarily found in Central and South America (black jaguars) or Africa and Asia (black leopards).

Answer 5

Black panther is not a species but may refer to a melanistic (black) jaguar or a melanistic leopard. Neither species occurs in Kentucky.

Answer 6

no there are not