It turns out, no matter how you want to look at it in reality this black cat is a black panther and that’s it.
I have no idea what it is doing here running around at night. Maybe it escaped from the zoo or something. Hopefully it’s hunting the tons of annoying chihuahua around, that pee all over the place, I wish!
But here it is:
which looks like that in motion:
compare with : Eadweard Muybridge, animal locomotion pictures, 1887:
Eadweard Muybridge “a cat running” (1887)