Better call the WWF black panthers are so rare in Africa that the only one ever documented was in Addis Ababa in 1909.
For what the trivia is worth, the African black panther is actually a melanistic variant of leopard.
There are two species of big cats that have the melanistic variant we call “Panthers” the African leopard, and the Jaguar of Central and South America
And only about 11% of the two subspecies of panthera carry the recessive genes to cause melanism world wide
Better call the WWF black panthers are so rare in Africa that the only one ever documented was in Addis Ababa in 1909.
For what the trivia is worth, the African black panther is actually a melanistic variant of leopard.
There are two species of big cats that have the melanistic variant we call “Panthers” the African leopard, and the Jaguar of Central and South America
And only about 11% of the two subspecies of panthera carry the recessive genes to cause melanism world wide