A panther is the correct terminology for me. Seen one that was so dark it looked black running across Elba highway coming from Troy nearly 25 years ago. How stealthy it could run made it look like it was gliding across the road in a very wide section of the roadway. Most people can't get pictures of these animals because they are always on the move finding food, searching for one of the few mates left, and they almost always only move at night. They are so few that pictures are more difficult than any other creature to capture and more stealthy than any other North American creature. Bobcats seem to roam freely during the day a panther mostly at night. I do know of about 4 other sightings in a Florida area by some relatives over a 50 year period. Sometimes the panthers were known to be in the area by the sounds they would make at night. Most move on to new areas looking for a rare mate until they get killed or die before breeding.