The animal itself
Not a species at all: a black panther is a leopard or jaguar with melanism, a recessive trait. The rosette pattern is still there under the black and shows in raking light.Symbol only · 1,900 searches a month
Panther
The panther is read as power kept out of sight until it is used. It carries no birth-date range in either calendar we cover, so no date can assign it to you — it is a symbol people choose rather than one they are given.
Which calendar assigns it, and when
Date range
none — not in either calendar
Searched
1,900 a month · rank 8 of 39
Neither calendar assigns dates to it, so any site that gives you them for panther has invented them. What the two calendars do cover →
What it stands for, and where that came from
Power kept out of sight until it is used.
Honoured in: Mesoamerican jaguar cults; the black panther as a modern political symbol; in African traditions usually the leopard rather than a distinct animal.
Counted across all 39 animals
This one has no birth dates at all
22/39
animals here carry a birth-date range. The other 17 are symbols
people choose, not ones a date assigns.
4.7%
of the year — 17 days out of 365 —
is where the two calendars name the same animal. The rest of the time they
disagree.
12th
most looked-up of the 39 animals we cover.
No date can hand you this animal, because neither calendar lists it — which is worth knowing before paying for a reading that claims otherwise. How the two calendars differ →
Searched about as often
Panther is ranked 12 of 39 by search demand. Of all 39 animals here, 22 sit in one of the two birth-date calendars and 17 are searched as symbols only.