At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is - we believe - the largest professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. Since 2009 we have been running the increasingly popular CFZ Blog Network, and although there has been an American branch of the CFZ for over ten years now, it is only now that it has a dedicated blog.
BLACK PANTHERS IN AMERICA
There seems to be a plenitude of Black panthers turning up where no such creatures should be. In the United States, it has been sometimes said they are Black Pumas, but such creatures are rarely - and I mean very rarely - to be found in the zoological record.
However, the Native Americans had traditions of a black felid distinct from the puma and this seems to have gone largely unnoticed by cryptozoologists. Small populations of these may have survived and possibly the population has begun to expand, accounting for some of the sightings.
One of these was the Devil Cat, which had a reputation for carrying off children. Then, in British Columbia, there was the How How. It has been found in totem poles, but the Indians maintain it once existed and differed from the puma.
Adding to the mixture, jaguarundis are sometimes black and probably big enough to be mistaken for a Phantom Black Panther.
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