Talk:Panther (legendary creature)

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Why does it say "legendary creature"? Surely it's based on real big cats. -Keesey 23:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

The creature this article talks about is out of ancient myth, and the attched image says alot about how ancient. This term for the word panther predates any modern usage. Stephen Day 05:09, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, why "legendary"? Do you mean that "panther" was a separate thing than "leopardalis" (leopard)? If you know that this mythological usage of the word predates its usage as an generic term for big cats, I would like to see your source. I have always been curious to know exactly how many big cats the ancient Greeks knew of and where they had seen them. Stassa 13:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

OK, after searching for a long time I found a good reference cite. I hope this answers all of you doubts. :-) Stephen Day 03:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

This is interesting, but a little confusing. Maybe the ancient vision of panthers does deserve it's own page, but maybe it could be worked into the panther page? I guess I'd weakly side with the former, on the faith that the creator(s)/author(s) knows what he, she, or they are talking about. But there's some wierd stuff. Like what does the bit about filtered heraldry mean, and especially this sentence that follows it: "An exception is what has recently been done for some African countries." What exactly is being done in African countries? It's completely confusing. Pigkeeper 18:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Should the fact that the word panther is also used to describe an actual living animal be noted in this article?--198.110.207.30 (talk) 21:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

"A Panther is a creature in ancient legend that resembles a big cat with a multicoloured hide."

So, a panther is a creature of legend that resembles very closely a creature of reality that is also sometimes called a panther. Something has gone wrong here. Srnec (talk) 04:32, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

Legendary?

Why legendary? I've seen panthers in real life. 79.106.209.139 (talk) 11:00, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

different Braganza (talk) 19:18, 16 April 2024 (UTC)