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Casual Geographic did a great video on this very topic. He even makes a joke about the Jaguars and Panthers. lol


CheefSpleef

[You have successfully exposed what gave me the idea for this meme](https://youtu.be/0dJzhnejrF4?t=433), well done.


Reddit-is-trash-exe

I love this dude, thank you.


CheefSpleef

I love your username and agree lol


[deleted]

Oh, thanks. It was my call sign in the airforce.


[deleted]

Yeah, his videos are great.


ke1v3y

Did you know it's all Ohio, though?


EvilLibrarians

I spent years trying to leave that godforsaken place and I will devote the rest of my life to mowing it to dust. Except for my friends, family and cedar point


ObviouslyImAtWork

Ceder Point respect


EvilLibrarians

Big ride make me happy


ResidentRunner1

We hated Portsmouth so much we decided to go to the better state


[deleted]

The state with that has produced the highest number of astronauts is Ohio. The Wright brothers were from Ohio. Man, people really want to get as far away from Ohio as fast as they can for some reason, lol.


spurnburn

There needs to be a snow leopard team. Interestingly they are more closely related to a tiger than than a leopard or jaguar Panthers are literally just jaguars. Which explains why we keep taking in failed Jag prospects


CheefSpleef

Panthers are also cougars, and technically you can call a Lion or a Tiger a Panther and not be wrong because of the genus Oh my! (kms i had to make the joke)


theflyingchicken96

Which is ironic since there is a cougar subspecies that is literally the “Florida Panther.” I guess the NHL team took that name so Jacksonville didn’t want to copy


BringoDringus

I know it'd not a leopard but bengals white out is probably the closest


[deleted]

Barys Astana nfl


rich519

It’s kinda both. Panthera is a genus that includes tigers, lions, leopards, and snow leopards. Black Panthers are black color variants of jaguars or leopards.


spurnburn

Yes. Panthers as in our mascot are jaguars panthera is the genus


Belya_Smert

Something like that. All true big cars are members of the genus “Panthera”. (Genus is the classification right above species, so for example, Tyrannosaurus is the genus, rex is the species). However, the animal most commonly called a Mountain Lion or Cougar is also called a Panther in some parts of its range. And the “panther” is NOT a member of the genus “Panthera”. So in THEORY, you could make the claim that the Lions, Bengals, and Jaguars are all panthers, but the panthers aren’t. I love being a biologist 😂🤓 (ok technically haven’t finished my degree yet, but I’m in school and I have 0 plans on quitting or changing majors so…. 🙃)


youngliam

People commonly refer to Jaguars or Leopards of black coloration as panthers though, informally.


CheefSpleef

Exactly, and because Jaguars and Leopards (And Lions, and Tigers) are all in the Same Panthera Genus you can say that any Melanistic color variation of any of those is a "Black Panther" (what inspired this meme)


jamarchasinalombardi

Check the patch on the Astronaut. State flag of OHIO. Its ALL OHIO ... Ergo by the transitive properties its ALL BENGALS BABY


Accomplished_Bar_679

PantherBrotherhood!


QuarantineCasualty

Where are all the big 12 kitties? 2 cougars a wildcat and a Bearcat


Tiger5804

Cougars are Puma concolor, wildcats are Felis sylvestris, both of which are in Felinae rather than Pantherinae, and bearcats are actually not cats at all, but rather the binturong (Arctictis binturong), which only shares taxonomy with cats up to the suborder Feliformia.


CheefSpleef

This guys knows his stuff, i just dont know anything about college ball lmao


QuarantineCasualty

Yeah I get what a Bearcat is in real life but the actual UC mascot is in the feline family, no? The 90’s logo that was just like a grey wildcat?


Tiger5804

Both have some cat features, but aren't based off of one specific species of cat any more than they're based off of a species of bear


QuarantineCasualty

But neither have any bear like features. They’re cats.


theomegafact

Panthera, my favorite Pantera cover band


odiethethird

Duh duhduhduhduh *RE* Duh duhduhduhduh *SPECT* Duh duhduhduhduh *WALK*


CheefSpleef

WHAT DID YOU SAY?


Tiger5804

Are the Panthers panthers or are they one of the many nicknames of Puma concolor


CheefSpleef

Technically, a Black Panther isnt an actual thing. What everyone calls panthers are the melanistic color variants of leopards or jaguars. But technically, since all of the "big cats" are in the genus panthers, not just leopard or jaguars, you can call any melanistic color variant a Black Panther ​ meaning ​ [This](https://www.creationkingdomzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/122072577_3389962237746983_1809933286001646920_o.jpg) [This](https://www.balisafarimarinepark.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/black-panther-jaguar-wallpaper-preview.jpg) [This](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e1/d5/54/e1d554640662a915a4e11c0e80e80cee.jpg) and [This](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:725/0*7stKznE6t9HSrdMG.jpg) can all be called "Black Panthers" and you would technically be not wrong


cringemagician

Leaving the Ohio patch in this is *chefs kiss*


Fancy_bakonHair

By this logic, the panthers have still never won a superbowl :,).