have yall seen timberrattlesnakes in the wild? or alligator snapping turtles? most people haven't, but they do exist.
thats a horrible comparison! people catch both of those all the time....theres plenty of photos of them. no one in the history of the world has ever photographed a black panther....they never get hit by cars, caught in traps, or shot by hunters. If you do some research i would bet mountain lions dont even carry the genes to produce black specimens.....