2119: leopard and panther Oct 3, 2020

Leopards and panthers are the same species, even if people usually use 'panther' to describe the black ones. These two terms have existed alongside each other for milenia, and in Latin 'pardus' and 'leopardus' was apparently the source of some confusion, but they both are from the same word: 'pard', as found in 'camelopard' (i.e. ’camel’+’pard’ = giraffe). The 'leo-' of 'leopard' means 'lion'.