Leopards and Panthers

In one of my reviews, someone seemed to be saying that leopards are not panthers.
That is simply not true. Leopards are panthers, and panthers are leopards. Some people even seem to think that panthers must be black, but then why would they call them 'black panthers', right?

Panther is a term that was originally applied to leopards that were larger, say those over two hundred pounds (yes, leopards can get rather big, though not as big as jaguars). You see, once upon a time, people thought that there were to species of African wildcat (black and spotted of course) and they called them 'Leopards' and 'Panthers'. Because there can be a large size difference in the breed, they thought that there were two distinct breeds.

This was later proven to be untrue. So black leopard = black panther. Leopard = panther.

Now you -can- distinguish leopards by where they come from (like they do with tigers). You have African leopards, Asian leopards (that's India and Asia), there are even Eurasian leopards from Eurasia. European leopards are extinct (along with European lions), you can thank the Romans for that, they pretty much hunted many of the big predators in Europe into extinction, because they needed them for the games and the extravaganza in the coliseums.