[meteorite-list] OT: Black Panthers

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 19:55:39 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <8CEB413828865DF-1AA0-88AD_at_webmail-d156.sysops.aol.com>

Brian wrote:

"have a melanistic phase "

Here in Florida at the moment, black panthers are part of the culture.
Of course they are now tecnically called melanistic bobcats, but who
really cares? The backwards appropriation of a common name by certain
"experts" IMO is more of a publicity stunt like the Pluto debate of
what's a planet.

Take a name in common culture, then subject it to pseudoscience, and
then tell people they can't call something a non-scientific and
established name that has been established years or centuries before.
And everybody shakes there head with wide eyes and nods in approval.
Suddenly with the strike of a geek's pen, a human idea has gone
extinct...

The cougars we have in Florida were called tigers in prior centuries.
For example, the most prominent clan of native Florida Seminole indians
is the tiger clan. Due to backfilling of common names in today's
English, this anachronistic name seems out of place - but in reality
what has changed is one person or groups idea of what constitutes a
tiger by back flushing taxonomy on the masses and selecting type
specimens when before there were none ...

For example, from the wilds of south Florida, the school colors are
blue and white .... but this panther has *always* been black

http://mpsh.dadeschools.net/

and kicked the feline asses of all the arch rival, politically correct
cougar pussycats:

http://www.miamikillianhs.com/

kindest wishes
from the territory where panthers rule
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: brian burrer <brimane at gmail.com>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tue, Feb 7, 2012 5:47 pm
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Black Panthers


Greetings List,

At one time Jaguars inhabited the southern portion of the United
States up to the Carolinas. They have a melanistic phase and have
been referred to as "black panthers". You won't run across one now
north of Mexico except perhaps in southern Arizona.

Happy Hunting (but check your back in south AZ),
Brian
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