Thinking ‘black panther’ is its own species
Super minor gripe but I get a lil annoyed whenever I see videos rightfully calling something a jaguar and someone in the comments goes ‘uhh thats a black panther’ because they are NOT their own thing. What people call black panthers are usually melanistic jaguars or leopards. (But any melanistic cat in the panthera genus could be rightfully called a black panther)
While I’m here I will admit that I’m a pedantic asshole and get a little annoyed when people call cougars, cheetahs, etc big cats, as ‘big cats’ taxonomically refers to the panthera (Tigers, Lions, Leopards, Jaguars, and Snow Leopards), but since those are technically ‘cats that are big’ I’ll let it slide