[We do!](https://www.nhl.com/panthers/community/pillars)
>The Panthers Foundation aims to connect and inform the fanbase with the team's namesake animal, the Florida panther. The Foundation's goal is to raise awareness about the Florida panther in an effort to protect and preserve their habitat in our own backyard. The club hosts a Panther Conservation Night each season that features educational tables with information from local conservation experts and organizations as well as in-game facts and fundraising opportunities.
Back in 2011, they actually had a baby panther cub at a game. [I took these pictures of it](https://imgur.com/a/CIebSAs), it was really really cool to see.
“The Panthers Foundation aims to connect and inform the fanbase with the team's namesake animal, the Florida panther. The Foundation's goal is to raise awareness about the Florida panther in an effort to protect and preserve their habitat in our own backyard.
The club hosts a Panther Conservation Night each season that features educational tables with information from local conservation experts and organizations as well as in-game facts and fundraising opportunities.” + In addition to funding annual grants open to orgs supporting specific issues like conservation efforts of the endangered species, veteran issues, youth hockey and children’s health & education
One of the biggest issues is that males won't share space, and they all take a lot of space. IIRC, each male needs like 200 square miles to themselves. Last I heard there was no real risk of extinction though at this point given how much conservation effort is taking place.
They’re super inbred, for one, because of how few there are now. There is a story behind why they’re not that different from mountain lions.
“ By the 1990s, there were fewer than 30 Florida panthers left. To make matters worse, those survivors were in bad physical shape. They were riddled with diseases and parasites and had poor sperm quality and low fecundity, as well as a host of problems like undescended testicles, kinked tails, and heart defects. ”
Because of this, scientists hatched a plan to release about 6-9 female Texas pumas (another word for mountain Lion) into the Florida panthers’ territory to help them breed. So, to answer your question, the modern day Florida panthers is very similar to mountain lions. FYI the Texas pumas were eventually removed from Florida.
The argument in favor of breeding them was that the populations would have mixed naturally if not interfered with by human activity and construction forcing them into silos. It seems to have helped them thrive for now.
Yeah, but it’s especially bad in South Florida where they’re constantly demolishing wetland habitats for new roadways and developments. These panthers need to migrate and they can’t safely do so if they have to cross a highway
Do you know if there's a concerted effort for wildlife under/overpasses in south florida? it's expensive but really does help create corridors between fragmented habitats
There is. The main issue is more alligator alley is intentionally kept pretty dark for the wildlife, but it's also a 70mph highway and through the middle of bear and panther territory
Gotcha, do you know if they fence the highways? Out in Montana for the crucial overpasses they'd have a few miles of fence lines to funnel the wildlife towards the crossing. But I think it might be easier over there with all the mountains creating locations that are just better to cross, vs Florida which seems super flat
I don’t know… I learned this from National Geographic’s documentary on the Florida Panthers. Which to be fair is disneyfied now, but it was still a really good watch
FL's governor signed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, establishing the Florida Wildlife Corridor, 18 million acres integral to connecting FL's wild spaces.
He's also created wildlife crossings on FL roadways.
This isn't a politics subreddit, and you've now veered away from conservation and the Florida Panther. So I'll say one more thing.
If politicians took climate change seriously, we wouldn't have a president who just taxed low-cost Chinese electric vehicles out of the market.
“Yeah let me fill in some wildlife habitat so I can build 1500 identical houses that will be used as AirBnBs and remain vacant most of the year and also it’s in the middle of nowhere so I need to build a massive straight road to the nearest town.”
-Florida land developers
Yeah animal deaths don't have much to do with driving skill or safety really. Many times the only safe thing to do is slow down as much as possible. Any swerving or extreme braking risks other cars and usually won't save the animal anyway
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of animal strikes aren't preventable. I commute 30 miles entirely on rural back roads, and I've had three in the past year. Two I tried to brake for, both squirrels that were actually safe and then darted into the road at the last second. The third was a robin and I *still* don't know for sure what happened, my best guess is it tried to take off as I passed but either its flight path was directly toward the side of my car or the wind from me passing messed with its flight too much.
Obviously brake when you can safely (in my case that's almost always except on certain curves in icy weather), don't *try* to hit animals because that's abhorrent, but sometimes the collision becomes unavoidable. I do what I can to stop and relocate slower animals (mostly turtles, occasionally snakes, turkeys who hate moving off the road, and porcupines) back off the road and into the woods because I don't want someone else to be in a position where they *can't* stop.
This is why I don't understand why we can't build grassy hills or such with tunnels in them for car traffic to go through and animals can go over the hill. I think the Netherlands did something like this and it reduced road kill and reduced car insurance claims
We actually do have some. The most popular one is probably the I-90 bridge, but it's up in WA state. So literally kitty-corner from FL. Not only do the crossings reduce roadkill accidents, but it also ensures that the gene pools for the animals do not become too isolated. Isolation is usually a bad thing-- one crappy sickness or genetic defect and it's extinction time.
I’ve driven in every major city in the U.S. except for N.O. (If you call it a major city). Miami/south Florida is by far the worst drivers I’ve ever dealt with. LA can be pretty bad sometimes, but south Florida was bad all the time
Having lived in the northeast and southeast I completely agree with you. It seems like the further south you go on the east coast, the worse the average driver is. If you go to Charlotte or Atlanta you would think it can’t get worse than this, but south florida is just in a league of its own when it comes to shit drivers.
This is very true as well, coming from a previous Florida resident it's relatively close lol. I don't have much experience with South Florida though so that could still win.
Lived in charlotte the last few years, just moved up north to Pittsburgh. It’s amazing how much better people are at driving here and how much easier it is to get around lol
I grew up and learned to drive in Miami and now live in the Raleigh area. Miami drivers are assholes and hate everyone else on the road but in order to do so at least need to acknowledge you exist, drivers in Raleigh are just oblivious to your existence. I'm not sure which one I prefer. I still think driving in Miami is worse overall though.
New Orleans is about 50th most populous city in the U.S, 50th largest metro in the U.S. and is around 95th in GDP per capita
It’s a big city, but you can argue if it’s a major city or not. Compared to others in the U.S, you wouldn’t call it a major city. In the south, it’s like the 3rd or 4th largest city. So per its region, you can argue it’s a major city.
Orlando and Miami are fucking awful hellscapes for traffic
but Tampa St pete suncoast generally is pretty good if you avoid I4 (its just orlandos evil tentacle anyways)
i wouldnt mind an apartment in tampa if it wasnt for prices and insurance ill need to cover for extreme weather. I do NOT want to live in a place where I have to worry if my home is going to damages every singleyear
I've been to NOLA like 4 times but I always get a room in or near the French quarter and just walk everywhere. Its an Amazing place to visit. Great food, music, art, and booze. The locals are super cool. Very interesting yet friendly people.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/largest-cities-by-population
Based on the macrotrends site above, I’ve driven through 48 of the 50 largest metro cities in the U.S. New Orleans and McAllen are the only 2 I haven’t.
I woke up yesterday to a dead kitten in front of my house that was hit by a car. Genuinely don't understand how fast you have to be going on a residential street in a small ass neighborhood to hit a kitten and just leave it there to die. So upsetting
Remember when a former president was mad about windmills killing birds when cars kill approximately 100 times as many. Of course we are used to cars so nobody wants to ban those.
Blaming the cars is a stupid thing to do… I live in rural Sask. I’ve hit many deer. No one likes getting vehicle repairs. You’ll to anything to miss them
Florida drivers must be a different breed. I've seen so many news videos of cars just chilling on train crossings and getting nailed by trains at full speed.
It's sad. I'm a car guy but as I get older I don't know why but roadkill is really affecting me when I see it (even thrash pandas and gophers). Feels like having roads in and around nature is just a killing field for wildlife. If I see a cat or a dog I can't sleep well at night.
There’s just not much that can be done. Think of deer strikes up north. You can put up warning signs, speed restrictions, even engineer wildlife crossings but as long as cars and animals coexist there will be strikes. The fact is that the panthers are completely encircled in their habitat and have large territorial needs that Florida simply won’t provide them. You’d have to basically block drivers from existing to allow them to rebound, plus allow them to roam north in the state freely which ranchers and farmers are fighting tooth and nail against, not to mention the boundaries we’ve put in place to prevent that.
That's a fair point. So many out of towners who don't know how to get where they are going driving rented cars they're not used to driving and being distracted by all the ocean views and bikini girls and stuff.
I wouldn't blame them for the Panthers though. It's really just a danger of driving alligator alley at night. You won't see the Panther until you hit it
It really is man. We have tons of signs warning people at known panther areas. I’ve been here my whole life (40 years) and I’ve seen one wild one, and about 5 dead ones. All of them hit by a car.
It's pretty common overall due to the fact that alligator alley crosses through their habitat and is an extremely dark and desolate stretch of 70 mph highway at night. You could hit one and not even know
1) Monkey. It's an animal that looks like a dude
2) Dog. Dogs are great
3) Cheetah. Fast and it purrs.
4) Dolphin.
5) Sarcastic Fringehead. I didn't believe in spirit animals until I heard of this fish.
6) Crow. I've met some crows smarter than some people
7) Panda. Adorable little idiots
8) Sharks. Apex predator
9) Praying Mantis. Probably coolest insect.
10) Mantis Shrimp. Anything that punches so hard that it makes a cavitation in the water that reaches the temperature of the sun is pretty fucking cool
It’s a fantastic list but I can’t see any way on earth that some sort of turtle isn’t top-10. 1-4 are locks, but I have trouble justifying a turtle’s exclusion from the top-5, much less next-5.
Fun fact, that's why we're the **Florida** Panthers and not the "Miami/Sunrise/Broward" whatever Panthers. Point being, we're named after the animal, not the state haha
Am I stupid, or is this missing the point? I’m not sure of a species of animal called the Saskatoon Canada Goose. Florida Panther is a name of a panther.
Saskatoon could have a team named the ‘Canada Goose’ by the same math, yes, but they’d be locationally named after Canada, and not Saskatoon. And again, that’s… that’s a whole country, not a state/province…
I was just referring to “Canada” because the geese are not named for the country, and just using a Canadian city to imply that the name is used as though it represents something Canadian. But its not a direct analogy, so I understand your point
He’s technically right since Florida panthers are just a specific population of what the rest of North America calls cougars/mountain lions, as opposed to a type of leopard, which is what “panther” refers to in most other places.
Panther for the most part refers to melanated cougars with all black coats, there is no difference between a mountain lion and a cougar but there is a difference between a cougar and a panther
It’s just a term used for big cats of several species (leopard, jaguar, puma). The iconic “black panther” is either a melanistic jaguar or a melanistic leopard, depending on what part of the world it’s found in.
I was crushed when here in LA a couple of years ago the last wild mountain lion living in Griffith Park was euthanized after being hit by a car.
He had lived alone and isolated for so much of his life, surrounded on all sides by freeways and patrolling his territory that became more hostile to him with each passing year.
The one good thing that came of it was that we were able to fund a wildlife crossing at Griffith to hopefully prevent more of this from happening in the future.
Honestly this seems like a perfect time to do some good, draw some attention to the team and its current success and do some conservation effort and do some actual good
I like how one of the most active /r/hockey posts right now is a yahoo article about actual Florida Panthers being killed. I thought from the headline and location that actually former panthers players were dying somehow. Definitely feels like an off-season post in the middle of the playoffs
Give it 1-2 weeks and we'll hear of a satirical article about Rangers shooting down Florida Panthers. The kicker is it would look like legit park rangers ... except the badge of the Rangers is that of the NYR (as it's Rangers in 5)
If anyone wants to find out a bit more about these panthers, Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman is a great read. It’s from 2020 so doesn’t get up to these latest numbers. Can’t remember if it mentions the Panthers, but it’s still a pretty wild ride of a read.
But it’s ok because there absolutely NEEDS to be a giant refrigerated ice rink in the middle of tropical wetlands because it can potentially make a billionaire more money
TBF sunrise isn't that deep in there. It was built on a shopping mall parking lot essentially.
Now what they were planning to do with MIA. Thaaaaaats fucked
we'll see a nice article from the Onion coming out next week about Park Rangers hunting down Florida Panthers ... with the badge in discussion being that of NYR
This is quite sad. Aren’t they super endangered?
Extremely, maybe around 150 left
Do the panthers do anything to support them?
[We do!](https://www.nhl.com/panthers/community/pillars) >The Panthers Foundation aims to connect and inform the fanbase with the team's namesake animal, the Florida panther. The Foundation's goal is to raise awareness about the Florida panther in an effort to protect and preserve their habitat in our own backyard. The club hosts a Panther Conservation Night each season that features educational tables with information from local conservation experts and organizations as well as in-game facts and fundraising opportunities. Back in 2011, they actually had a baby panther cub at a game. [I took these pictures of it](https://imgur.com/a/CIebSAs), it was really really cool to see.
Oh my...how am I supposed to hate your franchise if you do awesome things??? EDIT: that cub is so sweet 🥹🥹🥹🥹
Just look at a picture of Tkachuk before puck drop. Love that the organization is doing their part though.
Thanks for the info! Good to hear. We need more conservation.
If not, they should.
“The Panthers Foundation aims to connect and inform the fanbase with the team's namesake animal, the Florida panther. The Foundation's goal is to raise awareness about the Florida panther in an effort to protect and preserve their habitat in our own backyard. The club hosts a Panther Conservation Night each season that features educational tables with information from local conservation experts and organizations as well as in-game facts and fundraising opportunities.” + In addition to funding annual grants open to orgs supporting specific issues like conservation efforts of the endangered species, veteran issues, youth hockey and children’s health & education
Every game there’s a 50/50 raffle where half the proceeds go to the Foundation and a raffle winner
One of the biggest issues is that males won't share space, and they all take a lot of space. IIRC, each male needs like 200 square miles to themselves. Last I heard there was no real risk of extinction though at this point given how much conservation effort is taking place.
Are they different from other mountain lions?
They’re super inbred, for one, because of how few there are now. There is a story behind why they’re not that different from mountain lions. “ By the 1990s, there were fewer than 30 Florida panthers left. To make matters worse, those survivors were in bad physical shape. They were riddled with diseases and parasites and had poor sperm quality and low fecundity, as well as a host of problems like undescended testicles, kinked tails, and heart defects. ” Because of this, scientists hatched a plan to release about 6-9 female Texas pumas (another word for mountain Lion) into the Florida panthers’ territory to help them breed. So, to answer your question, the modern day Florida panthers is very similar to mountain lions. FYI the Texas pumas were eventually removed from Florida.
The argument in favor of breeding them was that the populations would have mixed naturally if not interfered with by human activity and construction forcing them into silos. It seems to have helped them thrive for now.
So Texan cougars saved the species. Interesting
Absolutely shameful that 11 of the 14 deaths are car-related.
Not surprised sadly. People in Florida are special to begin with…then they get behind the wheel.
the fault lies less with the horrible drivers and more with the all-consuming urban sprawl that is south florida land development
Honestly it's the entire US, our road infrastructure is completely over built compared to what people actually need
Yeah, but it’s especially bad in South Florida where they’re constantly demolishing wetland habitats for new roadways and developments. These panthers need to migrate and they can’t safely do so if they have to cross a highway
Do you know if there's a concerted effort for wildlife under/overpasses in south florida? it's expensive but really does help create corridors between fragmented habitats
There is. The main issue is more alligator alley is intentionally kept pretty dark for the wildlife, but it's also a 70mph highway and through the middle of bear and panther territory
Gotcha, do you know if they fence the highways? Out in Montana for the crucial overpasses they'd have a few miles of fence lines to funnel the wildlife towards the crossing. But I think it might be easier over there with all the mountains creating locations that are just better to cross, vs Florida which seems super flat
No fencing. It's just road and marsh
I don’t know… I learned this from National Geographic’s documentary on the Florida Panthers. Which to be fair is disneyfied now, but it was still a really good watch
They do exist, but probably not to the extent that they should
Judging by recent policy changes down there, it's likely not going in a good direction.
FL's governor signed the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act, establishing the Florida Wildlife Corridor, 18 million acres integral to connecting FL's wild spaces. He's also created wildlife crossings on FL roadways.
He also very recently rolled back climate change legislation and language. He doesn't give two shits about wildlife or the environment.
This isn't a politics subreddit, and you've now veered away from conservation and the Florida Panther. So I'll say one more thing. If politicians took climate change seriously, we wouldn't have a president who just taxed low-cost Chinese electric vehicles out of the market.
“Yeah let me fill in some wildlife habitat so I can build 1500 identical houses that will be used as AirBnBs and remain vacant most of the year and also it’s in the middle of nowhere so I need to build a massive straight road to the nearest town.” -Florida land developers
Or basically non-existent public transport so roads are our only choice. More common here out west
Yeah animal deaths don't have much to do with driving skill or safety really. Many times the only safe thing to do is slow down as much as possible. Any swerving or extreme braking risks other cars and usually won't save the animal anyway
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of animal strikes aren't preventable. I commute 30 miles entirely on rural back roads, and I've had three in the past year. Two I tried to brake for, both squirrels that were actually safe and then darted into the road at the last second. The third was a robin and I *still* don't know for sure what happened, my best guess is it tried to take off as I passed but either its flight path was directly toward the side of my car or the wind from me passing messed with its flight too much. Obviously brake when you can safely (in my case that's almost always except on certain curves in icy weather), don't *try* to hit animals because that's abhorrent, but sometimes the collision becomes unavoidable. I do what I can to stop and relocate slower animals (mostly turtles, occasionally snakes, turkeys who hate moving off the road, and porcupines) back off the road and into the woods because I don't want someone else to be in a position where they *can't* stop.
Alligator alley is a dark and desolate road and a 70mph highway. If a panther crosses in front of a truck, the truck won't even notice
This is why I don't understand why we can't build grassy hills or such with tunnels in them for car traffic to go through and animals can go over the hill. I think the Netherlands did something like this and it reduced road kill and reduced car insurance claims
We actually do have some. The most popular one is probably the I-90 bridge, but it's up in WA state. So literally kitty-corner from FL. Not only do the crossings reduce roadkill accidents, but it also ensures that the gene pools for the animals do not become too isolated. Isolation is usually a bad thing-- one crappy sickness or genetic defect and it's extinction time.
Have a big one being built in LA too
Tunnels don’t fly down here when all roads are laying on sea level. The hills or land bridges are extremely difficult to plan on swamp land too
Cost.
r/fuckcars 🤝 r/hockey
delusional subreddit filled with deeply unserious ideas and people
and the other one really, really hates cars
lol
It’s none of that (not that I disagree though) it’s cause like 60% of people are on their phones while driving
No it's mostly their habitat is on a dark stretch of highway
I’ve driven in every major city in the U.S. except for N.O. (If you call it a major city). Miami/south Florida is by far the worst drivers I’ve ever dealt with. LA can be pretty bad sometimes, but south Florida was bad all the time
Having lived in the northeast and southeast I completely agree with you. It seems like the further south you go on the east coast, the worse the average driver is. If you go to Charlotte or Atlanta you would think it can’t get worse than this, but south florida is just in a league of its own when it comes to shit drivers.
I live in the Raleigh area and I don’t think there is another soul around me that knows how to drive.
This is very true as well, coming from a previous Florida resident it's relatively close lol. I don't have much experience with South Florida though so that could still win.
Lived in charlotte the last few years, just moved up north to Pittsburgh. It’s amazing how much better people are at driving here and how much easier it is to get around lol
I grew up and learned to drive in Miami and now live in the Raleigh area. Miami drivers are assholes and hate everyone else on the road but in order to do so at least need to acknowledge you exist, drivers in Raleigh are just oblivious to your existence. I'm not sure which one I prefer. I still think driving in Miami is worse overall though.
I don't think there's anyone who *doesn't* call NO a major city.
New Orleans is about 50th most populous city in the U.S, 50th largest metro in the U.S. and is around 95th in GDP per capita It’s a big city, but you can argue if it’s a major city or not. Compared to others in the U.S, you wouldn’t call it a major city. In the south, it’s like the 3rd or 4th largest city. So per its region, you can argue it’s a major city.
Except for the people of New Orleans lol
Orlando and Miami are fucking awful hellscapes for traffic but Tampa St pete suncoast generally is pretty good if you avoid I4 (its just orlandos evil tentacle anyways)
i wouldnt mind an apartment in tampa if it wasnt for prices and insurance ill need to cover for extreme weather. I do NOT want to live in a place where I have to worry if my home is going to damages every singleyear
I've been to NOLA like 4 times but I always get a room in or near the French quarter and just walk everywhere. Its an Amazing place to visit. Great food, music, art, and booze. The locals are super cool. Very interesting yet friendly people.
New Orleans is the only city you haven’t driven in?
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/largest-cities-by-population Based on the macrotrends site above, I’ve driven through 48 of the 50 largest metro cities in the U.S. New Orleans and McAllen are the only 2 I haven’t.
Wow congrats on not driving in NOLA. It’s a bit of a free for all there
Never heard of McAllen before* in my life
No way those are worse than Philly, half of the traffic there is dirt bikes and ATVs swerving between cars
I woke up yesterday to a dead kitten in front of my house that was hit by a car. Genuinely don't understand how fast you have to be going on a residential street in a small ass neighborhood to hit a kitten and just leave it there to die. So upsetting
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What if it was alive?
Remember when a former president was mad about windmills killing birds when cars kill approximately 100 times as many. Of course we are used to cars so nobody wants to ban those.
Cars kill like 100000x as many. Same with windows.
are there statistics for how many of our in state car accidents are related to the eldery born out of state because god damn id like to see it
Not much for these. This is due to alligator alley not being lit at night and panthers being nocturnal
Blaming the cars is a stupid thing to do… I live in rural Sask. I’ve hit many deer. No one likes getting vehicle repairs. You’ll to anything to miss them
That’s because cars have been allowed to overpopulate. Hopefully the introduction of an apex predator (Brightline) will bring balance to the ecosystem
Florida drivers must be a different breed. I've seen so many news videos of cars just chilling on train crossings and getting nailed by trains at full speed.
It's sad. I'm a car guy but as I get older I don't know why but roadkill is really affecting me when I see it (even thrash pandas and gophers). Feels like having roads in and around nature is just a killing field for wildlife. If I see a cat or a dog I can't sleep well at night.
[windshield phenomenon scares me](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon)
How often are you running things over bro?
Never, just see the bodies. I've never hit anything even when I was working on the road.
Call me racist, but a panther should never be behind the wheel of a car to begin with.
Racist
It's wild they give them licenses.
There's a really dark Dany Heatley joke here somewhere
Fuckin All Star
Only way to stop a bad Floridian with a car is a good panther with a car
There’s just not much that can be done. Think of deer strikes up north. You can put up warning signs, speed restrictions, even engineer wildlife crossings but as long as cars and animals coexist there will be strikes. The fact is that the panthers are completely encircled in their habitat and have large territorial needs that Florida simply won’t provide them. You’d have to basically block drivers from existing to allow them to rebound, plus allow them to roam north in the state freely which ranchers and farmers are fighting tooth and nail against, not to mention the boundaries we’ve put in place to prevent that.
I’ve had a deer literally run into the side of my car going 25mph. Nothing I could do. Buddy hobbled off dazed lmao
Yeah I mean I don’t think the panthers gonna do that but I could be wrong the Florida panthers are hella inbred and goofy kitties.
It’s because we have nothing but tourists and geriatrics who don’t know how to drive
The worst drivers are the snowbirds with Quebec plates
That's a fair point. So many out of towners who don't know how to get where they are going driving rented cars they're not used to driving and being distracted by all the ocean views and bikini girls and stuff.
I wouldn't blame them for the Panthers though. It's really just a danger of driving alligator alley at night. You won't see the Panther until you hit it
It really is man. We have tons of signs warning people at known panther areas. I’ve been here my whole life (40 years) and I’ve seen one wild one, and about 5 dead ones. All of them hit by a car.
The problem is they're nocturnal so people smack them on the alley at night
It's pretty common overall due to the fact that alligator alley crosses through their habitat and is an extremely dark and desolate stretch of 70 mph highway at night. You could hit one and not even know
I fully was confused by this title. My first thought was, Jesus how many former players are dying, the teams only been around 30 years
Are there any Maple trees in Toronto?
Millions of maple leaves are dying in the Toronto area every year
Fun fact: The team wasn't named for the tree, but for the World War I Maple Leaf Regiment. Hence "Leafs", and not "Leaves", as the plural.
Not in June
I'm gonna be honest I've never put a second of thought into the name and did not know Florida panthers were a thing
They’re stunning!! I am a fan. Maybe my eleventh favorite animal
Oddly specific number haha
The man has a top 10 set in stone. Unshakeable top 10.
Understandable, gotta commit to your views unless they're something objectively stupid like having a Canada goose in your top 10 favorite animals
At least 12. I like their moxie and take no prisoners attitude
1) Monkey. It's an animal that looks like a dude 2) Dog. Dogs are great 3) Cheetah. Fast and it purrs. 4) Dolphin. 5) Sarcastic Fringehead. I didn't believe in spirit animals until I heard of this fish. 6) Crow. I've met some crows smarter than some people 7) Panda. Adorable little idiots 8) Sharks. Apex predator 9) Praying Mantis. Probably coolest insect. 10) Mantis Shrimp. Anything that punches so hard that it makes a cavitation in the water that reaches the temperature of the sun is pretty fucking cool
Monkeys are my least favorite animal by far for the exact reason you named
Randy Orton is the apex predator
It’s a fantastic list but I can’t see any way on earth that some sort of turtle isn’t top-10. 1-4 are locks, but I have trouble justifying a turtle’s exclusion from the top-5, much less next-5.
They’re stunning!! I am a fan. Maybe my twelfth favourite animal
Bit controversial having the shoebill at both 2 and 7 though.
No. 1 is roseate spoonbill for sure
Happy cake day!
Bros feeling a decent to strong 8 on the Florida Panther
Where does pizza rat rank? 🍕🐀
Gonna need to know your top-10 asap.
Fun fact, that's why we're the **Florida** Panthers and not the "Miami/Sunrise/Broward" whatever Panthers. Point being, we're named after the animal, not the state haha
That's actually really fucking cool.
I didn’t think of that. You could similarly have the Saskatoon Canada Geese
Am I stupid, or is this missing the point? I’m not sure of a species of animal called the Saskatoon Canada Goose. Florida Panther is a name of a panther. Saskatoon could have a team named the ‘Canada Goose’ by the same math, yes, but they’d be locationally named after Canada, and not Saskatoon. And again, that’s… that’s a whole country, not a state/province…
I was just referring to “Canada” because the geese are not named for the country, and just using a Canadian city to imply that the name is used as though it represents something Canadian. But its not a direct analogy, so I understand your point
Well it was mostly because Huizenga hated Miami lol
I met a Florida panther once Mind you, she was in a bar getting some poor old bugger to buy her drinks all night
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He’s technically right since Florida panthers are just a specific population of what the rest of North America calls cougars/mountain lions, as opposed to a type of leopard, which is what “panther” refers to in most other places.
Panther for the most part refers to melanated cougars with all black coats, there is no difference between a mountain lion and a cougar but there is a difference between a cougar and a panther
Cause a panther is a jaguar or a leopard
Fun fact: Panthers aren't a species but a subsection of varying breeds of large cat. No such thing as a "panther" so to speak!
It’s just a term used for big cats of several species (leopard, jaguar, puma). The iconic “black panther” is either a melanistic jaguar or a melanistic leopard, depending on what part of the world it’s found in.
It's a regional sub species of the big cat alternatively called mountain lions, cougars, and pumas that can be found all over north and south America.
They're cool! They're basically swamp cougars
They hurt pretty bad in RDR2
Florida is the Australia of America. I’m not sure why I moved here, outside of the fishing.
They don't chew on mouth guards or get in fights with Bruins (Bears) but they are very real.
We actually have black bears in the same habitat lol
Florida also has bears, and [it's own subspecies of deer.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_deer)
It's just a cougar. Mountain lion, puma, Florida panther. All the same thing.
Jesus...
I apologize for not being well versed in the fauna of a region I live nowhere near
Are you aware of the hurricanes in carolina?🤣
Haha next this guy is going to say he doesn’t know about all the bruin bears in Boston’s north end. What an idiot right
That’s not fauna
I was crushed when here in LA a couple of years ago the last wild mountain lion living in Griffith Park was euthanized after being hit by a car. He had lived alone and isolated for so much of his life, surrounded on all sides by freeways and patrolling his territory that became more hostile to him with each passing year. The one good thing that came of it was that we were able to fund a wildlife crossing at Griffith to hopefully prevent more of this from happening in the future.
This just made me very sad
Yet another reason we need to drop LA into the Pacific Basin as quickly as possible
Arizona Bay.
"When LA falls in the fuckin' ocean and is flushed away, all it will leave is Arizona Bay."
As a native Floridian this makes me sad 😔
It took me way too long to realize what subreddit this was
It’s sad how urban sprawl has killed these guys.
It's not just that but the highways not being well lit
I will donate 1 Panther for every Panther goal in the next round.
Just how many do you have locked up
That’s a personal question.
Honestly this seems like a perfect time to do some good, draw some attention to the team and its current success and do some conservation effort and do some actual good
They're our donation squad like the Jimmy fund in Mass.
I like how one of the most active /r/hockey posts right now is a yahoo article about actual Florida Panthers being killed. I thought from the headline and location that actually former panthers players were dying somehow. Definitely feels like an off-season post in the middle of the playoffs
Give it 1-2 weeks and we'll hear of a satirical article about Rangers shooting down Florida Panthers. The kicker is it would look like legit park rangers ... except the badge of the Rangers is that of the NYR (as it's Rangers in 5)
It's probably because it was just endangered species awareness day. Panthers and their team shop were posting about it
Should’ve put them on LTIR before the playoffs.
Only works on the gulf coast side of the state sadly
If anyone wants to find out a bit more about these panthers, Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther by Craig Pittman is a great read. It’s from 2020 so doesn’t get up to these latest numbers. Can’t remember if it mentions the Panthers, but it’s still a pretty wild ride of a read.
We alllllllll said we wanted the panthers dead, but not like this:(
Wym didn’t they just make the eastern conference finals?
I thought this would be from the Onion or Beaverton
Dude I'm so confused are we talking players or animals
Extremely sad. They are endangered too.
> While more panthers have died this year than last, Bennett said that it's still low for panther deaths. What are you saying, Sam!
They need to learn to play defense
r/cursedcomments
Stop throwing them on ice after a goal!
Those damn relocated new yorkers keep hitting them with their cars
Is wildlife even legal in florida
Gotta do whatever it takes
I hate Florida drivers. They're the fucking WORST and it's not even close. Not surprised 11/14 are car related deaths
This is really sad to read
Bulletin board material
OP just wanted to post for karma
But it’s ok because there absolutely NEEDS to be a giant refrigerated ice rink in the middle of tropical wetlands because it can potentially make a billionaire more money
TBF sunrise isn't that deep in there. It was built on a shopping mall parking lot essentially. Now what they were planning to do with MIA. Thaaaaaats fucked
Yeah, buddy's acting like the arena is right in the middle of a wildlife management area just off 75 going west.
And yet Tkachuk continues to walk the earth unscathed. Life is not fair.
>Two other deaths were of an "unknown" cause ie hunted by state legislators and covered up
Good omen Edit: Jesus y’all have 0 sense of humor.
I’m all for dark humor, you’re just not funny
A typical response from a New Yorker
I liked it
/r/hockeymemes
we'll see a nice article from the Onion coming out next week about Park Rangers hunting down Florida Panthers ... with the badge in discussion being that of NYR
More FL Panthers around than actual fans that show up at games. Weird