Talk:Ghira Belladonna/@comment-31589220-20181218111228/@comment-24018437-20181224142635

Its fine XD Its a common misconception, really. Leopard taxonomy has always been kind off...messy. Panthers were seen a different species, but there was also dispute among subspecies. For a time, it was even believed that Indian leopards could be split into three different species. The 'normal' leopard, the black panther and the forest leopard, which was called a tendua. In reality, these were all the same species.

Even in modern day, the taxonomy of the Panthera genus remains questioneble. The snow leopard was moved to the Panthera genus a few years ago. And in 2017, a lot of subspecies were found out to be non-existent. Instead of nine leopard subspecies, there are now believed to be eight. Lions went from about a dozen subspecies to two and tigers went from about nine to two subspecies. And cougars, while not part of the Panthera genus, also had some revisions. At one point, as mnay as 32 subspecies were regodnised. Nowadays, it was usually believed there are only three, one of which (the Florida Panther) is still a matter of debate among biologists.

On that, however, I can defenitely agree. I understand why they didn't went all-out with the faunus, but I do admit I sometimes imagine Blake with a tail, claws and maybe even small fangs. It would look pretty badass in my opinion, and I do believe there is even fan-art of it. Granted, some of those features would be harder to hide and like I said, I can understand why choose to do otherwise. But still, I think it would be cool.