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jojobean
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16 Jul 2011, 10:23 pm
They said that the eastern panther is extinct but I can promice you that it is not. My friend has a female panther that roams her 48 acres of woodland that is connected to another 300 acres of hunting club woodland. I know this because I heard it. Female panthers make a loud strange noise when in heat that sounds like a banchi screaming. In fact when I first started working there, one of the women told me about this banchi they hear every spring. She thought it was some prehistoric bird 
So I was curious so I googled animal that sounds like a banchi in the spring and many links to the eastern panther came up describing their mating patterns in the spring or fall and the female signals to any males with an eerie scream that sounds like a banchi. And after being there for a while...I heard it. It is indeed unsettling, but comforting to known she is still there.
As far as I know, the banchi, I mean panther still screams for 3 weeks in the spring on her property. They are verrry elusive, but not exstinct. With all the woodland in Georgia and the appliachians, I dont see why they would be. They may have been forced out of Florida but every hunter I ever talked to in Georgia has at least one panther sighting story. They are not extinct. I dont understand why they are classifying animals as extinct but are just elusive. I think it has something to do with the global warming crowd.
