Yea you guys run into one out in the woods at night and see what you say then. Seriously we do have big cats in Oklahoma and some can tend to run dark, look black at night. Get them under a bright light and that may change but in the dark?
We may have a few mountain lions around(very few) but there are no black ones. FWIW I’ve spent plenty of nights over the last 40 years calling coyotes.
I agree there are very few lions left but I hear they are making a comeback. As far as black ones, they can appear black in the dark.
The last known female jaguar was shot and killed by a hunter in Arizona in 1963, while the last legally hunted male jaguar was killed in 1965 in the Patagonia Mountains of Arizona. With the outlawing of most hunting in 1969, the jaguar made the Endangered Species Act by 1972. From 1970-1995 only two jaguars were documented in the U.S, with spottings in 2001 and another in 2009. It was not until 2016 that a jaguar was consistently documented and photographed in Arizona.
