If im not mistaken, thats how they drew up the original state lines. They caught and collared several panthers in florida. When the dats came back, they put the state lines where the florida panthers stopped and turned back. Also why they named the state florida, after the florida panther. About the same thing in colorado. Only the mountain lion was originally called the colorado, untill some guy from zimbabwe came to colorado on a skiing trip and saw a mountain lion and said, "hey, whats that lion doing up here on this mountain?" So they changed it from the colorado to the mountain lion. But they left the name of the state colorado.