A snake-handling couple was heading home from helping someone with a rattlesnake that needed relocating when the animal they saw in the middle of the road stopped them in their tracks. It was a critically endangered Florida panther, one of just a couple hundred of these animals left in the world.
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Rhett Stanberry is a field herper, and he sees some pretty cool things in the wild—usually reptiles. But he said this was one his favorite wildlife moments.
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“We were on our way home from a rattlesnake call, when we turned on our street and saw what appeared to be a large dog at first,” Stanberry wrote in an Instagram post sharing footage of the rare animal. “We quickly realized it was a critically endangered Florida Panther, there are only about 200 Florida panthers remaining in the wild.”
Florida panthers (Puma concolor coryi) are an endangered subspecies of mountain lion that lives only in the eastern United States.
Check out the critically endangered animal crossing the road in Florida:
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