Texas Native here. I had never heard of a jaguarundi until I saw one under a full moon and immediately googled what I had seen. The one I had seen was only about twice the size of a house cat, but I'll never forget it. Still hoping I get pictures of it on my trail cam! 🤞
That’s a great question! The thing here is people seeing a dark gray/black cat automatically think black panther. Maybe it’s possible they see a brown jaguar run and think cougar. I have never had anyone tell me they saw a brown one but I have very few jaguar. Rund reports most reports have been a ““Black Panther “that when I ask more questions more like a Jaguarundi. I appreciate your question..
I saw one last year in Arkansas. Me and a friend were about to go hiking and saw a strange cat about 100 ft away . We watched it for 5 minutes. Saw it clear in daylight. We didn't know what it was because we had never heard of jaguarundis before. It was almost black, very long tail, low slung with a weasel like head. Later we started scouring the internet and when we found pictures and videos of jaguarundis, whoa!!! There was the cat we had seen %100! We have also heard people who live nearby talking about a weird big black cat that they see ocasionally.
I saw one of these animals on my property, at dusk, in the northern hills of Prescott, AZ, in the summer of 2014. I didn't know what it was then, but I was very excited to see it. It was elusive and walked quickly across the back, avoiding any contact. I had a clear view of its details as we were sitting on a 2nd floor deck, and I said them out loud to my mother, who was sitting on the deck with me, so I wouldn't forget them. I told my husband about it. I knew it wasn't anything I'd ever seen. I described it to an educator friend at our local zoo, and she had no clue what it would be in our area. It was several years later when my husband showed me an article about it in Arizona Highways, though they said they were only in Southern Arizona. I immediately knew it was what I had seen. My mystery cat finally had a name. It was one of those moments when you realize you are seeing something rare and special.
Lived at Bay Landing Thousand Trails RV Resort near Decatur TX for 2 years. In the spring of 2022 one of the other full time RV tenants went site to site warning all pet owners that there was a black panther in on the premise. She said she took pictures of it in a tree and submitted them to the resort staff. Even though she was adamant it was a black panther, I assumed it was just a dark cougar as they have been confirmed on premise. Now I'm wandering if she saw a jaguarundi. I have only seen bobcats and coatimundi there. I now live in Boerne and have spotted a very lanky extra long tailed black cat many times hunting the Cibolo Creek Bed below my home. It looked like a badly taxidermied black cat because it was so stringy. I always wandered how it avoided being food for the grey fox that hunts that area or the coyotes. Now I need to take a closer look and if it is indeed this cool Jaguarundi, I'm sending pictures to the gentleman in this video.
They are very unusual cats! We run across them in Costa Rica from time to time. We have a few trail cam videos of them. Also... local Costa Ricans do say they are the same as black panthers.
Interesting discussion. I think you are right in attributing the black panther sightings to the jaguarundi. But what about the brown jaguarundis? Doesn't anyone see those as well? I live in California, South of San Francisco Bay. One night I stepped out my back door around 1:00 AM and saw a cat almost twice the size of a house cat. Its tail was as long as it's body and was straight, with hardly any curve to it. The cat was very dark and just walked away from me. The light next to my back door is a low wattage orange LED bulb, and this cat was about 8 feet away when I first saw it. From the angle I was looking, and also due to the poor lighting, I could not see its head it was not chubby, like a big house cat. In fact it was quite lean. This sighting was in early summer, 2021. I get a lot of critters in my back yard at night - raccoons, opossum, tree rats, rabbits, etc. I have seen bobcats before. This was not a bobcat. Some of my neighbors have cats that come into my yard during the daytime. However they don't wander around at night.
Hi. I know many people will say we didn’t see what we saw, but my coworker and I were working just northeast of Wonowon, BC. We were driving back to camp the other morning after a night shift when I saw what I thought was a small black bear facing us on the road about 300 meters ahead. I said, “Hey, look, a bear!” As it turned to jump into the bush, we both saw that its tail was nearly as long as its body. My coworker said, “No way, a black panther!” It was a huge cat-like creature, but literally as tall as a small black bear. It was gone before we could get a picture, but there was no mistaking what we saw. The way it jumoed into the bush… It wasn’t foggy; it was bright out for 6:30 a.m. I said to him that no one would believe is but we both saw it
We have them in the UK, our Black Panthers are black Leopards. Ironically I saw one one evening after it followed me after shooting American Grey Squirrels. ( invasive species) It obviously had been watching me hunt and must have seen me as a source of food. Stopped and watched me pack my gear into my car and walked off after I turned around and stared at it in disbelief for a minute. It was 20yds away. (Ironically due to previous post)it was only about six miles from Prescot ( a town near Liverpool). It was full sized Leopard with a long upturned tail, bright yellow eyes. It was as cool as fxck. Just calmly padded off after I walked towards it. Amazing creature.
I recently got a Jaguar last December 2023 on my trail camera here in Southern Arizona, it was all over the news. I've heard of sightings of Jaguarundis here in Southern Arizona but have yet to get one on camera,
@@JasonMillerOutdoors that’s awesome! I would love to do a blog at higher calling.net about your game cam photos or video. I bet there there are Jaguarundis there. You can email me at Chester@chestermoore.com
I saw an enormous black cat very long tail. ,2010 just outside a small central Indiana town. Ran out from a drainage pipe crossed the road down into the other drainage pipe. When it ran across the road it's paws were huge.
In 2019 I seen a huge black cat cross the road. Yacolt Washington. Then it occurred to me the cat 600 yards away. I thought??? Black panther???? Talks around Hockinson say back in 1901 ish people say they seen panthers around here. This was a bit smaller than a bobcat. The nearest house is 1 mile away and only a few homes in the area.
I live in Maine and last year got something on my trail camera that resembles this. I had no idea what it could be and still don't know. We have bobcats and I've seen a few and in the northern part of the state have lynx but not in the southern part and that's where I live and got this picture of 100% feline with a long tail going over a pile of brush and wood I had pulled up just to clean up a tree falling. Couldn't see the head in the picture but got a good picture of the body with a long tail and I was puzzled at what it could be. Bobcats have short stubby tail, definitely wasn't a coyote or bear and was way too big to be a wild domestic cat, the tail looked to be about 2 feet long.
I'm here because my husband and I literally saw one crossing the street on the hind side of the Lexus dealership on Lemmon Ave out of all the places in Dallas TX (literally 5 minutes from LoveField Airport and a huge park creek area the is fairly undeveloped...We were driving and it was crossing over to the next dealership and we are just so in shock that we had to search around the internet and we found you 😅....The dealership has cameras all over that area and it happened some time around 9:15pm 7/10/24...What made it distinct was the head and how long the tail was in comparison to the body and how it was running with the head very straight inline with the body and the size!!! I hope if you reach out to the dealership that they can provide you with footage because wow!!!!
I've seen jaguarundi 1 in north Carolina and 1 in south Carolina about a year ago the same day, I'm 💯 positive. It looks exactly like a small mountain lion
Well I saw a black panther in 1995 on hwy 6 outside clarksdale Mississippi, with the tail it was as long as my 18 wheeler was wide and under it’s black coat it was yellow with black circles in the coat
@@Steve-ev6vx could have been an escaped one, I called the Mississippi game warden, the man called me a liar( I do not lie) that really set a nerve off in me
me and a friend saw one in Theodore.....just outside Mobile in like75 or 76....we thought it was a black panther.....i was close enough icould have touched it
You tell me what I filmed! Until today I've never heard of Jaguarundi. That is one HUGE cat. He's every bit the size of our dog. I really wanted to get footprints but we had a heavy rain between him walking in front of my cameras and me checking them. The tail is not as long as it should be by description, so either a small Panther or Jaguarundi. WAY to big to be a house cat. I've seen ocelots in person, I've seen cougars in person, never got to film them. This is a strange one for me.
I am a total cat person, all species. My first intro to this one was on Utube & I'm just fascinated by this cat. They are quite elusive & solitary normally. I had thought at one point that they had almost disappeared & that their ranges had decreased because of human destruction of natural habitat. In South America there are species of cats that are on the endangered list, but too few aren't that should be. Their habitat is getting destroyed. From the information you have given about people seeing them; it appears to happen more often than I thought. From my perspective, not a good sign. We're encroaching into their habitat. I hate to think that eventually these gorgeous cats would be considered as a nuisance. Even animals placed on endangered species are still poached. Enforcement of these crimes is next to impossible to enforce, no thanks to too few law enforcement.
I saw a black panther on my road then on my property 7 years ago. All black, not gray. Huge with big yellow eyes and very very long short haired tail. I’m in Ohio.
I've seen a black panther that was probably close to 200 lb if not 200 although it was night music full moon night. And it came out of the cellar of an old abandoned house that had some kind of animal den in it that we always thought was a black bear because of the black fur that it left down there and because of the fact that we had seen a black bear not too far from there right before this happened. What is definitely wasn't a bear it was a cat. A couple years after that I seen a cat that looks like it was 300 lb and it completely filled up a 10 ft section of fence that was missing. From nose to tail anyways. this was also at night but there was a flood light directly above. The cat had black spots.
My wife a huge black cat in washington state she said it was a cougar or puma just dark fish and game up here says it doesn't exist but they say the same about sasquatch Chester are you still investigating southern sasquatch?
Some of my relatives have had sightings in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana which by description could have been this. Is it possible that they have been in those states do you think?
I doubt it but there is another suspect that I have discovered through research that will be revealed in part six of the series that is definitely up there. Thanks for watching!
@@PutYHWH1st I have some photos, videos etc. that will be posted. The first part of the series is establishing the suspects and then there will be more done as we move along. this is just the beginning.
I ain't never heard of a Jaguarundi, but I know there are stories of 'black panthers' in the Ozarks where my grandpa lived. On another note, actual Jaguars, it would seem, can & do visit as far north as Arizona. ruclips.net/video/V6tNTKwMUAc/видео.htmlsi=yB_C3S0hrM0ah3Un
Most of the experts on the Jaguarundi, Black panther always mention these cats are in Florida..Well let me enlighten the experts by saying that if the cats are in Florida…they are in South Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana.. and have been seen there.
I have always thought that is a possibility. I think a black phase jaguar is more likely. You always hear the old timer stories, and they would almost always talk about a long tail. The tail of a jaguar is relatively short. So, might be a combination of cats that created this legend. Oh yeah, and it screams like a woman😂
@thechestermoore I went back and watched the previous videos on this subject and subbed. So, I am looking forward to the other videos. As a traditional bowhunter I have had a couple of sketchy encounters with Mountain Lions both in Colorado and Texas. The one in South Texas got very close. It appeared dappled. It was not huge but, definitely predominantly deer colored.
Yep my family in the Deep South always saw these. My mother's family is between Memphis & Nashville in the swamp & my father's family is beyween Jackson & Montgomery in the swamp & the both sides saw them constantly & my father have a cousin that ate & cooked all the mountain lions, bobcats, lynxes, black panthers aka jaguarundi wild cats in the swamp with tea cakes with it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😋🤤🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Texas Native here. I had never heard of a jaguarundi until I saw one under a full moon and immediately googled what I had seen. The one I had seen was only about twice the size of a house cat, but I'll never forget it. Still hoping I get pictures of it on my trail cam! 🤞
That’s a great question! The thing here is people seeing a dark gray/black cat automatically think black panther. Maybe it’s possible they see a brown jaguar run and think cougar. I have never had anyone tell me they saw a brown one but I have very few jaguar. Rund reports most reports have been a ““Black Panther “that when I ask more questions more like a Jaguarundi. I appreciate your question..
@@thechestermoore * Sorry, I missed the question. What was the question?
I saw one last year in Arkansas. Me and a friend were about to go hiking and saw a strange cat about 100 ft away . We watched it for 5 minutes. Saw it clear in daylight. We didn't know what it was because we had never heard of jaguarundis before. It was almost black, very long tail, low slung with a weasel like head. Later we started scouring the internet and when we found pictures and videos of jaguarundis, whoa!!! There was the cat we had seen %100!
We have also heard people who live nearby talking about a weird big black cat that they see ocasionally.
I saw one of these animals on my property, at dusk, in the northern hills of Prescott, AZ, in the summer of 2014. I didn't know what it was then, but I was very excited to see it. It was elusive and walked quickly across the back, avoiding any contact. I had a clear view of its details as we were sitting on a 2nd floor deck, and I said them out loud to my mother, who was sitting on the deck with me, so I wouldn't forget them. I told my husband about it. I knew it wasn't anything I'd ever seen. I described it to an educator friend at our local zoo, and she had no clue what it would be in our area. It was several years later when my husband showed me an article about it in Arizona Highways, though they said they were only in Southern Arizona. I immediately knew it was what I had seen. My mystery cat finally had a name. It was one of those moments when you realize you are seeing something rare and special.
Lived at Bay Landing Thousand Trails RV Resort near Decatur TX for 2 years. In the spring of 2022 one of the other full time RV tenants went site to site warning all pet owners that there was a black panther in on the premise. She said she took pictures of it in a tree and submitted them to the resort staff. Even though she was adamant it was a black panther, I assumed it was just a dark cougar as they have been confirmed on premise. Now I'm wandering if she saw a jaguarundi. I have only seen bobcats and coatimundi there. I now live in Boerne and have spotted a very lanky extra long tailed black cat many times hunting the Cibolo Creek Bed below my home. It looked like a badly taxidermied black cat because it was so stringy. I always wandered how it avoided being food for the grey fox that hunts that area or the coyotes. Now I need to take a closer look and if it is indeed this cool Jaguarundi, I'm sending pictures to the gentleman in this video.
We live 4-5 hundred yards from the Cibolo creek and have seen these in the past. A Mile or so north of I-10.
I grew up in Little Rock, Ar. They are out there.
Yes! DeLeon Springs, FL. My husband and I both saw it! A jaguarundi !
They are very unusual cats!
We run across them in Costa Rica from time to time.
We have a few trail cam videos of them.
Also... local Costa Ricans do say they are the same as black panthers.
That's awesome! And yes, they are very different from other cats. Thanks for sharing!
Interesting discussion. I think you are right in attributing the black panther sightings to the jaguarundi. But what about the brown jaguarundis? Doesn't anyone see those as well? I live in California, South of San Francisco Bay. One night I stepped out my back door around 1:00 AM and saw a cat almost twice the size of a house cat. Its tail was as long as it's body and was straight, with hardly any curve to it. The cat was very dark and just walked away from me. The light next to my back door is a low wattage orange LED bulb, and this cat was about 8 feet away when I first saw it. From the angle I was looking, and also due to the poor lighting, I could not see its head it was not chubby, like a big house cat. In fact it was quite lean. This sighting was in early summer, 2021. I get a lot of critters in my back yard at night - raccoons, opossum, tree rats, rabbits, etc. I have seen bobcats before. This was not a bobcat. Some of my neighbors have cats that come into my yard during the daytime. However they don't wander around at night.
They are a weird looking cat, if you know what a Jaguarundi is then there is no mistaking it.
Hi. I know many people will say we didn’t see what we saw, but my coworker and I were working just northeast of Wonowon, BC. We were driving back to camp the other morning after a night shift when I saw what I thought was a small black bear facing us on the road about 300 meters ahead. I said, “Hey, look, a bear!” As it turned to jump into the bush, we both saw that its tail was nearly as long as its body. My coworker said, “No way, a black panther!” It was a huge cat-like creature, but literally as tall as a small black bear. It was gone before we could get a picture, but there was no mistaking what we saw. The way it jumoed into the bush… It wasn’t foggy; it was bright out for 6:30 a.m. I said to him that no one would believe is but we both saw it
We have them in the UK, our Black Panthers are black Leopards. Ironically I saw one one evening after it followed me after shooting American Grey Squirrels. ( invasive species) It obviously had been watching me hunt and must have seen me as a source of food. Stopped and watched me pack my gear into my car and walked off after I turned around and stared at it in disbelief for a minute. It was 20yds away. (Ironically due to previous post)it was only about six miles from Prescot ( a town near Liverpool). It was full sized Leopard with a long upturned tail, bright yellow eyes. It was as cool as fxck. Just calmly padded off after I walked towards it. Amazing creature.
I recently got a Jaguar last December 2023 on my trail camera here in Southern Arizona, it was all over the news. I've heard of sightings of Jaguarundis here in Southern Arizona but have yet to get one on camera,
@@JasonMillerOutdoors that’s awesome! I would love to do a blog at higher calling.net about your game cam photos or video. I bet there there are Jaguarundis there. You can email me at Chester@chestermoore.com
Just admit that we as a human race get enjoyment from saying jaguarundi
I saw an enormous black cat very long tail. ,2010 just outside a small central Indiana town. Ran out from a drainage pipe crossed the road down into the other drainage pipe. When it ran across the road it's paws were huge.
i believe that actual jaguars have been seen again in the new mexico desert and even along the gulf states
This is true. Conservationists are hoping for reintroduction to the US a few large male jaguars were in Arizona and New Mexico being monitored
In 2019 I seen a huge black cat cross the road. Yacolt Washington. Then it occurred to me the cat 600 yards away. I thought??? Black panther???? Talks around Hockinson say back in 1901 ish people say they seen panthers around here. This was a bit smaller than a bobcat. The nearest house is 1 mile away and only a few homes in the area.
I live in Maine and last year got something on my trail camera that resembles this. I had no idea what it could be and still don't know. We have bobcats and I've seen a few and in the northern part of the state have lynx but not in the southern part and that's where I live and got this picture of 100% feline with a long tail going over a pile of brush and wood I had pulled up just to clean up a tree falling. Couldn't see the head in the picture but got a good picture of the body with a long tail and I was puzzled at what it could be. Bobcats have short stubby tail, definitely wasn't a coyote or bear and was way too big to be a wild domestic cat, the tail looked to be about 2 feet long.
I'm here because my husband and I literally saw one crossing the street on the hind side of the Lexus dealership on Lemmon Ave out of all the places in Dallas TX (literally 5 minutes from LoveField Airport and a huge park creek area the is fairly undeveloped...We were driving and it was crossing over to the next dealership and we are just so in shock that we had to search around the internet and we found you 😅....The dealership has cameras all over that area and it happened some time around 9:15pm 7/10/24...What made it distinct was the head and how long the tail was in comparison to the body and how it was running with the head very straight inline with the body and the size!!! I hope if you reach out to the dealership that they can provide you with footage because wow!!!!
I've seen jaguarundi 1 in north Carolina and 1 in south Carolina about a year ago the same day, I'm 💯 positive. It looks exactly like a small mountain lion
I saw one in Wilcox county Alabama..long tail
Saw one in Dallas County
Well I saw a black panther in 1995 on hwy 6 outside clarksdale Mississippi, with the tail it was as long as my 18 wheeler was wide and under it’s black coat it was yellow with black circles in the coat
I know what I saw it looked exactly like a black jaguar or black cheetah, I know what I saw
3 years in anti-aircraft artillery, I can recognize jets flying overhead friendly or not, I know what I saw
@@Steve-ev6vx could have been an escaped one, I called the Mississippi game warden, the man called me a liar( I do not lie) that really set a nerve off in me
me and a friend saw one in Theodore.....just outside Mobile in like75 or 76....we thought it was a black panther.....i was close enough icould have touched it
You tell me what I filmed! Until today I've never heard of Jaguarundi. That is one HUGE cat. He's every bit the size of our dog. I really wanted to get footprints but we had a heavy rain between him walking in front of my cameras and me checking them. The tail is not as long as it should be by description, so either a small Panther or Jaguarundi. WAY to big to be a house cat. I've seen ocelots in person, I've seen cougars in person, never got to film them. This is a strange one for me.
They are in E. Texas . Hopkins County
I live in southern Missouri and think I may have seen one. It certainly looked alot like one. Definitely a suspect for 'black panther' sightings!
I am a total cat person, all species. My first intro to this one was on Utube & I'm just fascinated by this cat. They are quite elusive & solitary normally. I had thought at one point that they had almost disappeared & that their ranges had decreased because of human destruction of natural habitat. In South America there are species of cats that are on the endangered list, but too few aren't that should be. Their habitat is getting destroyed. From the information you have given about people seeing them; it appears to happen more often than I thought. From my perspective, not a good sign. We're encroaching into their habitat. I hate to think that eventually these gorgeous cats would be considered as a nuisance. Even animals placed on endangered species are still poached. Enforcement of these crimes is next to impossible to enforce, no thanks to too few law enforcement.
I saw a black panther on my road then on my property 7 years ago. All black, not gray. Huge with big yellow eyes and very very long short haired tail. I’m in Ohio.
Northern CA. sighting here.
I've seen a black panther that was probably close to 200 lb if not 200 although it was night music full moon night. And it came out of the cellar of an old abandoned house that had some kind of animal den in it that we always thought was a black bear because of the black fur that it left down there and because of the fact that we had seen a black bear not too far from there right before this happened. What is definitely wasn't a bear it was a cat. A couple years after that I seen a cat that looks like it was 300 lb and it completely filled up a 10 ft section of fence that was missing. From nose to tail anyways. this was also at night but there was a flood light directly above. The cat had black spots.
My wife a huge black cat in washington state she said it was a cougar or puma just dark fish and game up here says it doesn't exist but they say the same about sasquatch Chester are you still investigating southern sasquatch?
I’ve got some pretty interesting things coming up in that realm.
That's gonna be cool, Chester can't wait for that one.
Got two possible bigfoot stories too!
I can verify that, yes, if I came across one of these jaguars, I would think that's definitely the blank panther of lore lol
Some of my relatives have had sightings in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana which by description could have been this. Is it possible that they have been in those states do you think?
I doubt it but there is another suspect that I have discovered through research that will be revealed in part six of the series that is definitely up there. Thanks for watching!
Are you going to post some of the videos in future parts? Like the one I sent you from near Romney West Virginia.
@@PutYHWH1st I have some photos, videos etc. that will be posted. The first part of the series is establishing the suspects and then there will be more done as we move along. this is just the beginning.
I believe that this what my mother saw back in the 80s in South Carolina, and swore it was a panther.
thanks for sharing!
They are EVERYWHERE in Louisiana and ppl keep calling them black panthers
They seem to be bigger than the listed size
I ain't never heard of a Jaguarundi, but I know there are stories of 'black panthers' in the Ozarks where my grandpa lived. On another note, actual Jaguars, it would seem, can & do visit as far north as Arizona. ruclips.net/video/V6tNTKwMUAc/видео.htmlsi=yB_C3S0hrM0ah3Un
I just know I want one.
They are 100% in Florida.
Most of the experts on the Jaguarundi, Black panther always mention these cats are in Florida..Well let me enlighten the experts by saying that if the cats are in Florida…they are in South Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana.. and have been seen there.
I have a picture, I live in East Tx do you have an email?
chester@chestermoore.com
It is more related to puma than jaguar
...Say again?.?
I have always thought that is a possibility. I think a black phase jaguar is more likely. You always hear the old timer stories, and they would almost always talk about a long tail. The tail of a jaguar is relatively short. So, might be a combination of cats that created this legend. Oh yeah, and it screams like a woman😂
keep watching the series. The jaguar is up next!
@thechestermoore I went back and watched the previous videos on this subject and subbed. So, I am looking forward to the other videos. As a traditional bowhunter I have had a couple of sketchy encounters with Mountain Lions both in Colorado and Texas. The one in South Texas got very close. It appeared dappled. It was not huge but, definitely predominantly deer colored.
Yep my family in the Deep South always saw these. My mother's family is between Memphis & Nashville in the swamp & my father's family is beyween Jackson & Montgomery in the swamp & the both sides saw them constantly & my father have a cousin that ate & cooked all the mountain lions, bobcats, lynxes, black panthers aka jaguarundi wild cats in the swamp with tea cakes with it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😋🤤🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Offer a reward. There are millions of camera traps deployed.
I saw like 10 of them the other day all raising their fists in the air
Tom Segura?
Lol. Good one.
Stop that nonsense black panther bs.