The friendship between animals clearly knows no bounds. (Video courtesy of Luna_the_pantera) …

When a Russian couple go out walking with their enormous cat that seems to look like a “panther,” they get some amazing reactions. With his enormous size, striking eyes, and silky coat, Vincent the cat has become an internet sensation. Moscow-based Andrey Kolbasin and Anastasia Semerikova got Vincent after falling in love with him as a kitten; he…

A wildlife photographer from India snapped these images of a rare black panther as it slept in a tall tree. Bhargava Srivari from Hyderabad had been tracking the large black feline for two years before he finally caught sight of it in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve. The 29-year-old said that, in his some 20 years of…

A photographer from Miami Beach was left shaking with excitement after a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with five elusive Florida panthers, from behind the lens, in one day. Ezra Van had been tracking wild Florida panthers, the official state animal, for years without luck. “I poured over Fish and Wildlife research maps and reports, talked to rangers,…

When you think of panthers, those black, mysterious—not to mention dangerous—leopards of the wild, your imagination may wander to obscure jungles in India or Africa, where few humans set foot. And your imagination would not be far off, for such animals are among the rarest large cats in the world. “Black panthers are uncommon,” Nicholas Pilfold,…